Rocky Chen
Incoming Embedded Software Engineer at Purdue University College of Engineering
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRocky Chen is a software engineer specializing in robotics and vehicle systems, with nine years of experience building embedded and system-level software. Currently working on vehicle positioning at Waymo, he has recent hands-on experience across embedded platforms, OTA, actuation, RF ranging for passive entry systems, and simulation. His background blends Linux administration and network security with growing expertise in Docker, OpenStack, and Python, reflecting a strong ops-to-embedded skill set. Rocky has led hardware and software teams in collegiate robotics (Purdue ACM SIGBots), co-founded a drone startup, and contributed to robotics research and simulation at Holon Robotics. He brings practical experience shipping production vehicle tools and platform infrastructure, plus a knack for bridging low-level firmware with higher-level deployment and diagnostic tooling. Based in West Lafayette and educated in Computer Science and Robotics Engineering at Purdue, he combines academic rigor with startup and automotive-scale engineering.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Robotics Engineering , Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science Robotics Engineering at Purdue University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (24)
translation10
linux10
manjaro10
php8
open-source8
javascript7
networkmanager7
owncloud6
nextcloud6
collaboration6
docker6
usability5
federation5
file-sharing5
self-hosting5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mandeler/lpx260_config
Nov 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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