Seth Barberee
Test Engineer at Alphawave Semi
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSeth Barberee is a Test Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience in ASIC validation and hardware/software integration, currently testing custom wafers and packaged parts at Alphawave in San Jose. He previously developed HW/SW solutions at Texas Instruments for voltage references and supervisors, helping release new supervisor variants while addressing challenges of larger wafers and tighter scribe widths. A Texas A&M Computer Engineering graduate with a math minor, Seth blends lab test engineering with embedded systems firmware skills—his open-source contributions include adapting QMK keyboard firmware and improving Wayland/AwesomeWM projects, highlighting a knack for low-level firmware, CI/CD, and cross-stack debugging. He also has HPC/AI internship experience containerizing demos and managing NFS file servers, and brings leadership from residence life roles where he built community programs. Outside work he tinkers with freelance electronics and strategy video games, a mix that fuels his curiosity for novel technical problems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Minor, Mathematics, Minor, Mathematics at Texas A&M University
Github Skills (29)
c-language10
qmk-firmware10
testing10
firmware10
custom-keyboard10
qmk10
c1110
keymaps10
remap10
keyboard10
c1710
lua10
keyboard-layout10
keymapping10
customisation10
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Seth's contributions primarily revolve around customizing and extending the QMK keyboard firmware. They focused on adapting the firmware for specific keyboard layouts like the Iris and the Sinc, including modifications for split keyboard configurations. The user demonstrates expertise in keymap customization, RGB lighting control, and link-time optimization within the QMK framework, indicating a strong understanding of embedded systems and keyboard firmware development. They were also responsible for updating userspace configurations and addressing CI/CD errors.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
awesomeWM/awesome
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
awesome window manager
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 13 commits, 15 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Seth primarily contributed to the Awesome Window Manager (awesomewm) project by adding new tests, examples and documentation. The commits include adding tests for existing gears tables functions. Furthermore, the user added examples for different components of awesomewm such as layoutbox and wibar. The documentation was also updated for gears.string and gears.cache modules, demonstrating a focus on improving the usability of the project.
luatitlebarfloatinglinuxwindow
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