Renato Dias
Software Engineer at The Browser Company
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRenato Dias is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building platform and embedded software, currently focused on performance and stability at The Browser Company. His background includes senior platform engineering roles at Google where he worked on Android developer tooling and Fuchsia OS, and a deep history in mobile Android, IoT drivers, and on-device ML demos. Renato combines low-level hardware interfacing (SPI LED strips, servos) with polished Android UX work (media playback, Material Design), showing rare fluency across embedded systems and consumer-facing apps. He holds a master’s in AI and an executive MBA, and has taught and led technical programs, reflecting strengths in mentorship and developer advocacy. Based in Boulder, CO, he contributes to notable open-source projects like the Android Universal Music Player and Android Things drivers, demonstrating a practical emphasis on real-world integrations and platform robustness.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Executive, MBA, Executive at IbmecMaster, Artificial Intelligence, Master, Artificial Intelligence at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
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Github Skills (30)
mobile-development10
spi10
android-development10
java10
serialization10
javas10
gpio10
driver10
device-driver10
tensorflow10
sys10
android10
embedded10
tflite10
android-things10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
androidthings/contrib-drivers
Jul 2016 - Aug 2021
Open source peripheral drivers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:116 commits, 13 PRs, 71 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Renato primarily contributed to the development of drivers for Android Things, focusing on peripheral interactions. They implemented a driver for an APA102 LED strip, enabling control over RGB LEDs using SPI. Further contributions involved adding a servo driver, button driver, and the migration of a speaker driver, showcasing their expertise in interfacing with various hardware components within the Android Things ecosystem.
driversperipheralandroid-thingsdriver
androidthings/sample-tensorflow-imageclassifier
Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
Classify camera images locally using TensorFlow models
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android) & Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Mobile Developer (Android) & Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Renato primarily worked on the Android application side, making significant improvements to the image classification demo. They refactored core components and made UI enhancements. They also addressed camera handling, added configuration options and fixed capture session, and integrated improvements with TFLite to bring the demo on Android Things. Further, they updated to newer Android Things SDK versions and API changes, including adding support for new hardware platforms.
pythonedgetpucameralocallytensorflow-models
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