Matthew Haahr
Embedded Software Engineer at Intuitive
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Haahr is an Embedded Software Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building firmware, prototyping hardware, and low-level robotic control systems, currently expanding capabilities of the da Vinci surgical robot at Intuitive Surgical. Trained in Robotics Engineering at WPI, he blends kinematics, actuation, and computer science with practical skills in PCB prototyping, pneumatics for soft robotics, and tooling for firmware debugging. He has shipped medical-device firmware at Certus Critical Care, taught engineering and led labs, and even applied stage-lighting and event-production know-how to novel LED installations. A persistent tinkerer and maker, Matthew bridges the gap between elegant motion control and real-world hardware constraints, often demonstrating solutions through rapid prototypes and creative fabrication.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Robotics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at San Francisco University High School
Github Skills (4)
wordpress4
database-access3
perl3
python1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mjhaahr/LED-USB-Hub
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
A 3 Port USB Hub, USB-C Upstream, USB A with RGB LED downstream, features an RP2040 to run the LEDs and possibly other features
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 112 pushes in 1 year 2 months
mjhaahr/HDSP-200X-Driver
Oct 2021 - Jan 2025
Contributions:1 release, 18 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
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