Sarena Meas
Staff Software Engineer at IonQ
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolSarena Meas is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building embedded and application software across aerospace, defense, and cloud IoT domains. She has a strong C/C++ and embedded systems pedigree from roles at Raytheon, Universal Avionics, and multiple engineering levels at Amazon and AWS, where she contributed to FreeRTOS and the widely used AWS IoT Device SDK for embedded C. Now at IonQ, she blends low-level device work with cloud-connected systems and has hands-on experience porting libraries to new boards, fixing hard-to-find memory leaks, and improving MQTT/HTTPS reliability. With dual masters in electrical and computer engineering and a background writing VHDL drivers and satellite firmware, she brings rare cross-disciplinary fluency between hardware, firmware, and cloud services. Colleagues rely on her for pragmatic debugging, standards-driven cleanup, and making embedded IoT codebases more robust and portable.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Engineering at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Github Skills (24)
freertos10
mqtt10
http10
c1110
mqttnet10
c1710
sys10
aws-iot10
embedded10
tls129
tls139
code-cleanup9
mtls9
libtls9
system-integration8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-freertos
Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
DEPRECATED - See README.md
Role in this project:
Back-end & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:389 reviews, 168 commits, 210 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sarena contributed to the Amazon FreeRTOS project by modifying the code in several demos and tests, mainly for the Xilinx microzed and Renesas RX65N-RSK. They primarily focused on updating file versions, fixing compiler warnings, and adding features to port the library to different boards and operating systems. Their work also involved integrating the HTTPS client to support PUT/POST methods and resolving memory leaks.
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aws/aws-iot-device-sdk-embedded-C
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
SDK for connecting to AWS IoT from a device using embedded C.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 release, 451 reviews, 107 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Sarena primarily contributed to the AWS IoT Device SDK for Embedded C, focusing on bug fixes, code cleanup, and adding metrics. Their work involved removing platform-specific ports (macOS and Windows), correcting spelling errors, and updating the MQTT system tests for connection retries. They also addressed coding standard violations.
aws-iotsdkembeddedawsembedded-c
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