Sean Quinn
Hardware System Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Quinn is a Hardware System Engineer with a PhD in Physics and a decade of experience designing and bringing up high-speed data acquisition systems, low-light sensor front ends, and embedded firmware for research and commercial platforms. Currently at Meta working on VR headset prototypes, he blends firmware, DAQ software, and systems bring-up with hands-on analog and sensor characterization expertise developed in balloon-borne and cosmic-ray experiments. His background spans SiPM/PMT analog front ends, multi-GS/s waveform digitizers (DRS4), and FPGA/SoM-based PetaLinux DAQ stacks, enabling full-stack solutions from sensor physics to production tooling. He also contributes to open-source tooling—fixing logic and HDL issues in the widely used Logisim-evolution simulator—showing a knack for reliable back-end fixes and documentation. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic debugging, calibration pipelines, and signal-processing software that turn noisy waveforms into usable physics-grade data. Based in Redmond, he pairs academic rigor with industry tempo to ship robust embedded systems for demanding real-world measurements.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, 3.69, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics, 3.69 at Rochester Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physics at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (8)
circuit10
javas10
digital-design10
simulator10
java10
digital-logic10
verilog8
vhdl8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
logisim-evolution/logisim-evolution
Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
Digital logic design tool and simulator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 7 PRs, 8 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Sean primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Logisim-evolution project. They fixed logic issues in components, addressed calculation errors in HDL generation, and refactored code to handle "do not care" values. Furthermore, the user updated and adapted documentation, specifically dealing with the user interface for the gates section, and also integrated changes from other branches to enhance the project's stability.
digital-circuitsvhdlcircuitssimulationdigital-logic
seanpquinn/scipy
Dec 2017 - Jul 2022
Scipy library main repository
Contributions:10 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 8 months
scipypython
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