Diana Burgess
Senior Firmware Engineer at Zoox
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolDiana Burgess is a Senior Firmware Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing and integrating embedded systems across automotive and robotics domains, currently advancing firmware at Zoox. She combines deep firmware skills in C/C++ and embedded toolchains with practical electronics expertise—soldering, circuit analysis and hardware design—developed across roles from Bendix to Nuvation. Her background spans vehicle control and ASIC test frameworks, Python-based test automation, CAN bus systems, TwinCAT I/O control, and mechanical CAD, enabling her to bridge hardware, firmware and systems engineering. Known for strong documentation and cross-disciplinary collaboration, she has repeatedly taken ownership of end-to-end prototypes and validation suites that accelerate development and debugging. An origin in mechatronics and field-tested work on acoustic and vehicle networks gives her a rare systems-level perspective that informs robust, production-ready firmware.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
St Michael's Secondary SchoolBachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at University of Waterloo
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frc971/971-Robot-Code
Feb 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:10 commits in 2 years 1 month
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