Sheng Zhao
Embedded Software Engineer at Meta
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSheng Zhao is an embedded software engineer with over a decade of experience building firmware and application software for automotive, industrial, and consumer devices. He has led teams at Texas Instruments and HP, driving power management, bootloader/security functions, and end-to-end releases for next-generation hardware while now contributing at Meta. Sheng blends low-level firmware expertise on TI Jacinto/Sitara platforms with higher-level Android, Python, and Qt development, and has shipped Software Defined Radio features to millions of vehicles. He’s comfortable operating in cross-functional environments—partnering with HW, validation, product, and marketing—and has a track record of mentoring engineers and improving automated test frameworks. An active open-source contributor, he ported Firmata support across TI LaunchPad boards in the Energia Arduino fork, broadening IoT hardware compatibility.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
Chinese, German, English
Github Skills (10)
embedded10
c-language10
firmata10
abstraction-layer10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
arduino10
hal10
msp9
iot8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
energia/Energia
Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
Fork of Arduino for the Texas Instruments LaunchPad's
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sheng primarily contributed to porting the Firmata firmware, which is used for controlling hardware, to various new boards supported by the Energia project, which is a fork of Arduino. This involved adding board definitions, pin mapping, and hardware abstraction layers for microcontrollers, and updating the Firmata library itself. These changes enabled the Firmata protocol to work on a wider variety of Texas Instruments LaunchPads.
launchpadtexastexas-instrumentsarduino
shengzhao91/FirmataGUI
Jun 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:30 commits, 3 comments in 2 months
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