Aria Burrell
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAria Burrell is a pragmatic software engineer and experienced people leader with 12 years of hands-on experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and embedded firmware from Calgary, Alberta. She has led remote cross-functional teams at ATB Financial through API enablement, core banking modernization and platform sun-setting, emphasizing psychological safety, OKRs, and Team Topologies to reduce cognitive load and boost autonomy. Technically versatile, Aria contributes to embedded debugging (notably improvements to the blackmagic-debug project for ARM Cortex and Renesas RZ/A parts) and has developed bespoke firmware and build tooling for open hardware music devices. Comfortable switching between code and strategy, she pairs Python/SQL/aws automation and CI/CD experience with a strong advocacy for developer experience and clear documentation. Outside of engineering, her background in policy and student advocacy informs a collaborative, stakeholder-aware approach to product and team decisions.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Linguistics, Linguistics at University of CalgaryPolicy Studies, Policy Studies at Mount Royal University
Github Skills (11)
firmware10
arm10
debugging10
embedded10
assembly10
cortex-m10
c-programming10
microcontroller10
sys10
assembler10
gdb8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
blackmagic-debug/blackmagic
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
In-application debugger for ARM Cortex and RISC-V processors.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 6 PRs, 20 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Aria primarily contributed to the `blackmagic-debug/blackmagic` repository, an application debugger for ARM Cortex microcontrollers. Their work involved adapting target definitions for Renesas RZ/A1 microcontrollers by adjusting target names, and implementing RAM size autodetection based on part ID. Further contributions included improvements to the Cortex-A core debugging support, fixing issues related to CPSR mapping, and fixing hang-on-run scenarios to ensure more reliable memory reads.
armrisc-v
GoldenShrimpGuild/shrampybot
Jan 2025 - Aug 2025
ShrampyBot's (and ShrampyDev's) serverless function code
Contributions:55 PRs, 105 pushes, 50 branches in 7 months
serverless
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