Tarkan Al-kazily
Firmware Engineer at Meta
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTarkan Al-kazily is a firmware engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building embedded systems and low-level software, currently contributing to firmware at Meta. He combines a dual background in computer engineering and mathematics from the University of Washington with graduate coursework at UC Berkeley, bringing strong systems thinking to problems in robotics, rocketry, and avionics. His resume spans firmware and embedded roles—leading STM32-based controllers, DMA/interrupt-driven sensor architectures, and real-time OS device drivers—alongside software internships at NVIDIA and Arista focused on CI, automation, and platform update workflows. At Synapse he cut power test runtime by 75% through a Python automation tool, showing a knack for practical tooling that accelerates engineering. Outside work he applies RF and telemetry expertise to sounding rockets and ham radio, reflecting a passion for extreme applications of computing. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep embedded skill with systems-level product thinking.
12 years of coding experience
Double Major: Computer Engineering and Math, Computer Engineering, Double Major: Computer Engineering and Math, Computer Engineering at University of WashingtonMasters of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Masters of Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
English, French
Github Skills (26)
gazebosim9
robotics9
prologue9
audio-effect8
robot8
midi8
synthesizer7
audio7
ros7
quantum-computing7
bare-metal6
q-learning5
parsing5
playing5
quantum-algorithms5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
clareliguori/2014-Aerial-Assist
Dec 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:129 commits in 10 months
frccode-repositoryarialassist
TarkanAl-Kazily/home-linux
Jun 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:52 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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