Eric Tang
Software Engineer, Infra at Kumo
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Tang is a software engineer specializing in infrastructure with a decade of hands-on experience building reliable systems across cloud, embedded, and firmware domains. Based in Mountain View, he has shipped production tooling at LinkedIn and AWS, led education and bootcamp initiatives to upskill engineers, and now focuses on infra work at Kumo. Eric pairs strong systems engineering—automation of data lake encryption, AWS-backed Java services, and infrastructure-as-code—with low-level firmware expertise demonstrated through notable open-source contributions to the popular QMK keyboard firmware. He has a background in CS and math from UT Austin and a history of driving cross-functional projects from prototype to delivery, including embedded software for a SpaceX Hyperloop competition pod. Curious about quantum computing, he blends practical production experience with a willingness to explore emerging compute paradigms.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (20)
c-language10
atmel10
controller10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
c1110
microcontroller10
c1710
avr10
sys10
atmel-studio10
eeprom10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
keyboard9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 25 PRs, 299 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on updating and optimizing firmware components related to keyboard functionality, specifically involving EEPROM operations for configuration and settings. They modified code related to RGB lighting, backlight control, audio settings, and bootloader functionalities, demonstrating a focus on customizing keyboard behavior. These changes indicate a deep understanding of the firmware's internal workings and a commitment to improving user experience through hardware-level adjustments.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
eltang/keystrokes
Jan 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:210 commits, 16 branches in 1 year 3 months
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