Fahad Mirza
Sr. Software Engineer at 7-Eleven
Irving, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolFahad Mirza is a senior Edge AI and embedded systems engineer with 11 years of experience blending low-level C firmware, Python tooling, and rapid hardware prototyping to deliver production-ready IoT and vision systems. He has driven cost and performance wins—such as GPU-accelerated multi-camera pipelines on Jetson devices that cut per-unit hardware cost by $2,000—and scaled test coverage and CI/CD across edge fleets. Comfortable from PCB design and electronics debugging to clean, Google-style code and unit-tested firmware, he has shipped LoRaWAN stacks, developer kits, and automated test systems that improved power use and throughput dramatically. An active OSS contributor, he has improved Adafruit’s I2C/SPI abstractions to make device buffers safer and documentation clearer. Based in the Dallas–Fort Worth area, Fahad pairs an electrical engineering background (M.S.) with a practitioner’s curiosity—he teaches, mentors, and even built a vehicle-tracking product adopted widely in Bangladesh.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Electrical Engineering at The University of Texas at ArlingtonBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology
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Github Skills (9)
i2c10
embedded10
c-language10
serial-communication10
spi10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
arduino-library10
batchfile6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
adafruit/Adafruit_BusIO
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Arduino library for I2C & SPI abstractions
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Fahad primarily focused on improving the `Adafruit_I2CDevice` library, which provides abstractions for I2C and SPI communication. Their work included refactoring the code to use `const` for buffer arguments in write functions, enhancing code maintainability and preventing unintended modification of data buffers. They also added and updated function descriptions for better clarity, demonstrating a focus on code documentation and maintainability.
i2carduino-libraryarduinoabstractionsspi
mirzafahad/pystlink
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Python API to flash STMicroelectonics Microcontrollers using ST-LINK/V2 CLI Utility
Contributions:4 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
apipythonstlinkflashst-link
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