Summary
Gus Tahara-Edmonds is an embedded engineer and Engineering Physics student at UBC with six years of hands-on experience designing hardware and writing firmware for safety-critical and automotive systems. He has shipped production C firmware for vehicles, led software and firmware teams for a fully electric racecar, and built hardware-in-the-loop stacks and tooling in C++, Python, and FreeRTOS for regression testing and platform bring-up. His background spans PCB design, KiCAD layouts, SolidWorks fixtures, and automation that converts human-readable JSON into CAN DBC and embedded drivers, highlighting a knack for bridging high-level tooling with low-level systems. Comfortable in fast-paced R&D environments, he’s contributed to projects at Neuralink, Tesla, Nuro, and Jane Street, combining academic rigor with practical delivery in Vancouver.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Physics, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Engineering Physics at The University of British Columbia
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mount Douglas Secondary