Dave Yonkers
Senior Software Engineer at Tesla
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolDave Yonkers is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building firmware, integration, validation, and automation tooling for high-performance vehicle systems, currently driving Etherloop infrastructure at Tesla in Palo Alto. He began in motorsports and embedded systems—leading software and simulation efforts for Michigan State Formula Racing and delivering race-critical tools and telemetry platforms at Pratt Miller that cut MATLAB optimization runtimes by 90% and automated pitstop analytics. Dave’s background spans firmware architecture, C++/C# systems, React Native integrations, CAN/ROS logging, and data visualization stacks (Mapbox, Plotly, Grafana), giving him a rare blend of low-level embedded expertise and production-grade data tooling. He repeatedly turns domain complexity into practical engineering: from wireless scale-pad integrations to neural-network performance predictors for Corvette racing. Based in Silicon Valley with academic ties to Michigan State and the University of Michigan, he combines motorsports instincts with automotive-grade software rigor.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of MichiganMichigan State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
timing8
c116
parser4
file-parser4
embedded4
iot3
command-line-tool3
influxdb3
pe-analyzer3
microcontroller3
reed-solomon2
minecraft2
subsystem2
cpp2
rtos2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
msfrt/PiLogger
Jan 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
msfrt/Dynamometer
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:6 PRs, 62 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 2 months
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