Shirley Du
Senior Software Engineer at MakerBot
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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RockstarShirley Du is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of hands-on experience building firmware, desktop, and toolpath systems at MakerBot. She has grown through multiple roles at the same company—from QA to desktop and firmware engineering to senior-level toolpath development—demonstrating deep product intuition and cross-disciplinary ownership of the 3D printing stack. Shirley combines low-level firmware knowledge with application-level tooling, making her adept at translating hardware constraints into reliable software workflows. Her long tenure at a single, product-focused company suggests strong domain expertise and a bias for shipping iterative improvements that matter to end users. She thrives in environments where embedded systems, desktop integration, and manufacturing workflows intersect.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (25)
slicer10
printer10
gcode10
cnc10
3d-printer10
3d-printing10
pyqt10
cnc-controller10
slicing10
qml10
sourceforge9
python9
parser8
pyserial7
json7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
makerbot/assimp
Aug 2020 - Mar 2023
Official Git mirror of the Open Asset Import Library SVN repository.
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 7 months
libgit2svngit-mirrorassetgit-gui
makerbot/json-cpp
Sep 2014 - Nov 2021
json parser for C++ (git import from sourceforge)
Contributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 3 months
cppsourceforgeparserjsonjson-parser
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