Jay Zhao
Junior Software Engineer at Altium®
Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Zhao is a Junior Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience blending embedded firmware, Linux kernel work, and hardware/PCB design for consumer and industrial platforms. He transitioned from firmware and kernel development—authoring sensor drivers, Yocto build automation, and camera integrations—to hardware engineering where he designed multiple 6-layer PCBs and automated test scripts. At Altium he now applies that cross-domain expertise to software challenges, bringing a systems-engineering mindset honed at Simon Fraser University. He also founded and ran a small restaurant, where he led operations, analytics-driven pivots during COVID-19, and built a Raspberry Pi–based monitoring platform—an example of his practical, end-to-end problem solving. Jay combines low-level embedded fluency with product-focused pragmatism, making him effective at resolving complex hardware-software integration issues.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
ENGINEERING, ENGINEERING at Fraser International CollegeBachelor of Engineering - BE, Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Systems Engineering at Simon Fraser University
Github Skills (15)
yocto9
bsp9
openipc7
yocto-layer7
qualcomm7
openembedded6
ros5
robotics5
libc5
yocto-project4
arm4
expansion4
infrared4
linux3
camera3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jayzhao93/hello-gumstix
Jul 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
jayzhao93/yocto-morty
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 push, 7 branches in 6 months
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