Erik Smith is a Mechatronics Engineering student at the University of Waterloo with nine years of hands-on experience designing and programming electromechanical systems for manufacturing and automation. He has delivered PLC and HMI solutions across Siemens, Omron, Beckhoff, and Kawasaki platforms during internships at Tesla and Eclipse Automation, and designed high- and low-voltage PCBs and electrical cabinets using Altium and SolidWorks at Stein Industries. Comfortable from PCB prototyping to factory acceptance testing, he blends controls software expertise with practical electrical troubleshooting and schematic design. Based in Stratford, Ontario, Erik is also passionate about game development, bringing a programmer’s mindset to embedded and automation challenges. Notably, his background spans both field-level commissioning and higher-level control logic, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on industrial systems.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronics Engineering at University of Waterloo
Personal project of mine to make a battle planner for rainbow 6 siege community
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year
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