Ethan Zonca
Electrical Design Engineer at Thorlabs
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Zonca is an electrical design engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in rapid development of hardware, firmware, and embedded software from concept to functional prototype. He currently designs hardware and firmware for Thorlabs Ultrafast Optoelectronics and runs Protofusion Labs, where he develops and sells open-source hardware solutions. His background includes embedded Linux multiprocessing, bare-metal and FreeRTOS microcontroller work, RF and software-defined radio prototyping, and quick-turn multi-layer PCB design for autonomous vehicles. Known for making pragmatic design choices that reduce cost and complexity, he blends hands-on electronics with firmware expertise to accelerate product cycles. Based in Ann Arbor, he also writes about hardware/software topics and has a track record of shipping commercial and community-driven embedded systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Cedarville University
Github Skills (48)
firmware10
can-bus10
usb9
eagle9
arm8
trace8
stm8
nucleo8
archlinuxarm8
gdb8
stlink8
hardware-interface8
altium-designer8
kicad7
hardware-designs7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
normaldotcom/CANard
Feb 2016 - Oct 2018
A fork of CANard with various tweaks and improvements implemented
Contributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 27 pushes in 2 years 8 months
improvementstweaks
normaldotcom/cangaroo
Aug 2018 - Jul 2022
Open source can bus analyzer software - with support for CANable / CANable2, CANFD, and other new features
Contributions:3 commits, 36 pushes, 4 comments in 3 years 11 months
can-bus
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