Luis Candanedo
Senior Validation Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolLuis Candanedo is a Senior Validation Engineer with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience that blends lab automation, FPGA/SoC validation, embedded firmware, and data science to accelerate silicon testing and IoT productization. He has built Python-based regression frameworks, FPGA APIs, and global infrastructure tooling at Microsoft and in prior lab roles, while also designing IoT prototypes and data acquisition systems for real-world sensor-driven ML. Holding an M.A.Sc. and Ph.D. in Building Engineering, he brings deep expertise in experimental design, thermal and energy systems—an unusual cross-domain asset for hardware validation teams focused on power and thermal metering. Luis publishes peer-reviewed research on occupancy detection and PV-thermal systems, maintains public ML datasets, and complements academic rigor with practical firmware and automation chops (pytest, bash, ESP32, Agilent DAQ). Based in San Jose, he thrives at the intersection of sustainability, hardware, and software, turning complex physical experiments into reproducible, automated testbeds.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
CourseraPhD Building Engineering, PhD Building Engineering at Concordia UniversityB.Eng. Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, B.Eng. Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at Universidad Tecnológica de PanamáEnglish as a second Language, English as a second Language at McGill UniversityJohn Hopkins
English, Spanish, French
Stackoverflow
947reputation
415kreached
14answers
4questions
Github Skills (35)
simulation9
sdk9
multiprocessing8
quantum-computing8
editing8
api8
intermediate8
google8
quantum-algorithms7
python7
jupyter-notebook6
random-forest6
quantum-programming-language6
scale6
lubridate6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LuisM78/Occupancy-detection-data
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
LuisM78/mypython
Jun 2022 - Feb 2024
Contributions:55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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