Kovin Wu
Founding Engineer at Stealth
Vancouver, British Columbia, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolKovin Wu is a founding engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing embedded electronics and firmware for robotics and physical products, currently building at a stealth startup after leadership roles at Sanctuary AI and senior hardware positions at 1X. He blends systems-level hardware design, low-level firmware, and team leadership to take prototypes to production, having led embedded teams and shipped complex robotics electronics. Based in Vancouver with roots in Norway, he’s equally at home soldering PCBs or architecting firmware stacks and enjoys making things “go beep-beep,” a hint at his playful, hardware-first approach. His background includes cross-disciplinary contracting and advising, and he maintains a public portfolio that showcases practical, production-oriented projects beyond standard resume highlights.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese, French
Stackoverflow
199reputation
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1answer
6questions
Github Skills (33)
points9
noaa9
clock9
forecast9
weather-data9
e-ink9
weather8
while-loop6
bitbucket6
c-string6
append6
graphic6
git6
javascript6
pyserial6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
openrobotics/P0012-Pan-Tilt-Head
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:15 pushes in 3 months
KeepThisTicket/weatherClock
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Analog clock that shows the weather instead of the actual numerical hour it points to.
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 2 months
clocknoaae-inkforecastanalog
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