Ran Chen
Director Of ESW&HW Engineering at Pony.ai
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRan Chen is a seasoned embedded systems leader with nearly a decade of hands-on experience spanning RTOS programming, board bring-ups, and low-level driver development across automotive, mobile, and robotics platforms. Currently Director of ESW&HW Engineering at Pony.ai, he has progressed from senior engineer roles to leading both software and hardware departments for autonomous vehicle middleware and base software. Expert in C/C++ and ARM architectures, Ran combines deep OS/kernel bootloader debugging skills with practical hardware know-how across peripherals like CAN, USB, Wi‑Fi and sensor suites. His background includes mission-critical bring-ups at Qualcomm and Apple, and a history of integrating hypervisors and real-time drivers for automotive SoCs. Based in Mountain View with an MS in Electrical Engineering, he’s as comfortable with Trace32 and JTAG as he is steering cross-disciplinary teams toward production-grade embedded solutions.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering, MS Electrical Engineering at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBS Automation in Control Science Dept., BS Automation in Control Science Dept. at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ForeverRG/ForeverRG.github.io
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:23 commits, 35 pushes, 14 branches in 10 months
ForeverRG/Wpf.MvvmLight.SelfHost
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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