Rachel Mant
Hardware Software Engineer at The Geek Group
Greater Reading Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Mant is a hardware-software engineer with 15 years of cross-disciplinary experience building embedded systems, firmware, and tooling for defence, automotive racing, and IoT. Currently working for a defense contractor and leading embedded design at The Geek Group, she combines low-level MCU work (UART/USB stack contributions to libopencm3) with backend and build-system expertise (notable contributions to Meson, Linguist, and a C/C++ memory profiler). Comfortable across C/C++, Python, and build automation, she has a track record of fixing subtle platform issues—case sensitivity, string handling, and toolchain/coverage integration—that keep complex toolchains reliable. Based in the Greater Reading Area, Rachel is also an active open-source contributor and VTuber who brings a pragmatic, user-focused approach to firmware and gateware development. She is attentive to detail and systems thinking, often improving robustness in quiet but high-impact ways that surface across toolchains and embedded stacks.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Computer Science and Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at University of York
Github Skills (33)
language-detection10
uart10
objective-c10
c-language10
python10
build-system10
cortex-m10
c1110
microcontroller10
c1710
libopencm310
regular-expression10
performance-analysis10
sys10
build-automation10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
RudjiGames/MTuner
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
MTuner is a C/C++ memory profiler and memory leak finder for Windows, PlayStation 3/4/5, Nintendo Switch, Android and other platforms
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily focused on fixing case sensitivity issues, string handling, and other code related issues. The user also re-made PCH and added a QByteArray based stringDup() to the PCH. Additionally, the user made a code refactor regarding environment variable grabbing.
memoryplaystation3memory-leak-finderc-plus-plusfinder
github-linguist/linguist
Apr 2014 - Sep 2014
Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 11 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily worked on improving the C++ and Objective-C heuristics used by the Linguist project to accurately detect programming languages. They added and refined regular expressions to identify C++ and Objective-C code based on include statements, keywords, and class definitions. Additionally, they corrected errors in the heuristics logic, including fixing failing patterns and ensuring the heuristics were correctly integrated and utilized within the Linguist system. Their work focused on improving the accuracy of language detection.
linguisticlanguage-grammarslanguage-statisticspull-requestrequest
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