Jay Pacamarra
Firmware Engineer at Sanctuary AI
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolJay Pacamarra is a firmware engineer based in Vancouver with eight years of experience designing real-time embedded systems for robotics and electric vehicle control. Currently at Sanctuary AI, he focuses on robust low-level architectures that bridge sensors, actuators, and safety-critical control, drawing on past roles leading VCU firmware for SFU's Formula SAE electric team and engineering work at Ballard Power Systems and Novax. He combines mechatronics training from Simon Fraser University with hands-on firmware leadership, debugging elusive hardware-software interactions "one segfault at a time." Known for pragmatic problem-solving, Jay excels at turning complex control requirements into maintainable, deterministic firmware for high-reliability platforms. Colleagues value his ability to scope and deliver embedded features under tight timelines while keeping long-term system resilience in view.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronic Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Mechatronic Systems Engineering at Simon Fraser University
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Github Skills (18)
microcontroller10
hardware10
iot10
bluetooth10
embedded10
git9
mcu9
bluetooth-le9
rtos9
zephyr8
zephyr-rtos8
firmware6
freertos6
stm5
arm3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
DAQSimple/DSX_fw
Apr 2021 - Aug 2021
Firmware for the DSX data acquisition system made by DAQSimple
Contributions:3 releases, 24 reviews, 47 PRs in 3 months
data-acquisitionfirmwareacquisitiondsx
jaypacamarra/RC-Car
Sep 2020 - May 2021
Modified RC car from amazon with wireless communication using the NRF24L01 SPI Transceiver module
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 8 months
spiwireless
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