Chris Otos
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolChris Otos is a pragmatic build, validation, and test engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience across satellites, databases, Android devices, and autonomous vehicle hardware, now based in Portland, Oregon. He blends low-level embedded systems work (CAN bus, display init, throttle control) with automation and DevOps skills—Jenkins, AWS, Python, Rust and C/C++—to keep complex pipelines reliable and production-ready. At PolySync he bridged customer-facing engineering and production DriveKit hardware work, adding Rust-based cable validation to hardware-in-loop tests and resolving elusive subsystem issues. His background includes mission-critical satellite test systems and scaling CI for new device bring-up at Intel, showing a consistent ability to turn messy real-world problems into repeatable testable solutions. An active contributor to the PolySync open-source car control project, he focuses on hardware integration and stability fixes that directly improve vehicle control reliability.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Electronics Engineeering Technology, AS, Electronics Engineeering Technology at Mt. Hood Community CollegeCal Poly Pomona
Github Skills (9)
firmware10
can-bus10
embedded10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
arduino8
ec7
el7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
PolySync/oscc
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018
Open Source Car Control 💻🚗🙌
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 25 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on low-level system and hardware integration tasks within the open-source car control project. Their commits addressed issues related to display initialization, CAN bus communication, and the implementation of control logic for components like throttle. They fixed bugs, corrected errors, and improved the overall functionality and stability of the vehicle control system.
car
PolySync/oscc-joystick-commander
Jul 2018 - Jul 2019
Joystick Commander is an example application for OSCC
Contributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 6 pushes in 11 months
joystick
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