Kira Kopcho
Signal Integrity Engineer at Tektronix
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKira Kopcho is a Signal Integrity Engineer and robotics-focused electrical/computer engineer with eight years of hands-on experience bridging hardware and software. A recent Oregon State University graduate and former OSU Mars Rover team lead, she brings practical expertise in ROS 1/2, embedded C, PCB design tools, and power-sequencing validation from internships at Tektronix and a software role supporting the Mars 2020 rover. Comfortable teaching and collaborating across disciplines, Kira has led labs and recitations, recruited TAs, and translated technical results into clear documentation and tests. Her background spans systems engineering—from low-level timing and SPI/I2C interfaces to higher-level robotics simulation—paired with strong customer-facing communication honed at IKEA. Based in Portland, she’s driven by building complex robotic systems and enjoys solving cross-domain integration challenges that require both hardware intuition and software rigor.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Auburn Riverside High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State University
Github Skills (6)
rover6
codebase5
station3
autopilot2
firmware2
embedded2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
OSURoboticsClub/Rover_2020_2021
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:145 commits, 3 PRs, 134 pushes in 10 months
kira-the-engineer/kira-the-engineer
Oct 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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