Matthew Bellafaire
Controls Engineer at Pratt Miller
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Bellafaire is a controls and embedded systems engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building hardware and software for autonomous vehicle technology and sensor systems. Currently at Pratt Miller, he combines academic research—developing gaze-detection systems and wireless battery-powered sensors—with practical controls work, bringing lab-to-production sensibilities. His background includes designing a driving simulator, developing Wi-Fi enabled sensors, and teaching Arduino-based labs, reflecting strong systems integration and mentoring skills. Comfortable across firmware, hardware development, and web tools (including prior e-commerce and webmaster roles), he often prototypes personal projects showcased on Hackaday, demonstrating a persistent maker mindset beyond standard engineering duties.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Embedded Systems, Master of Science - MS, Embedded Systems at Oakland University
Github Skills (3)
bluetooth-low-energy10
bluetooth9
android7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Bellafaire/Android-Companion-App-For-BLE-Devices
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Provides an open source app which can send phone notifications and control phone functions over BLE
Contributions:5 releases, 64 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 10 months
phonebluetoothbleandroidbluetooth-low-energy
Bellafaire/ESP32-Smart-Watch
Feb 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:377 commits, 112 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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