Frederic Marchand
Senior Firmware Engineer at Tesla
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrederic Marchand is a Senior Firmware Engineer with 13 years of embedded systems experience, currently designing firmware for electric vehicles at Tesla in Sunnyvale. He has led firmware for multiple ECUs and vehicle subsystems—lighting, 12V battery management, HVAC and headlight controllers—bringing up new microcontroller platforms and driving down vehicle sleep current to preserve range. His background includes EV charging firmware at Zoox and early hands-on work across automotive-grade protocols (CAN, LIN, SPI, I2C) and ASIC libraries, plus factory and field support to improve yield and serviceability. Known for shipping creative features like the Model X light show and for commonizing platform drivers, he blends deep low-level engineering with cross-team systems thinking. Trained in software engineering from Carleton University, he pairs motorsports and EV passion with a practical track record of reducing hardware issues through firmware innovation.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science: Software Engineering, Computer Science, 10/12, Bachelor of Computer Science: Software Engineering, Computer Science, 10/12 at Carleton University
French, English
Github Skills (6)
react5
multiplayer-game5
nodejs5
socket-io5
javascript4
multiplayer4
Github contributions (5)
fredericmarchand/TexasHoldem
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:34 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
fredericmarchand/7Wonders
Feb 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:339 commits in 1 year 2 months
react7-wondersgamesocket-iomultiplayer-game
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