Thad House
Senior Firmware Engineer at Meta
Sultan, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolThad House is a Senior Firmware Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust embedded and systems software, currently working at Meta after a software engineering stint at Microsoft. He specializes in firmware, hardware abstraction layers, and cross-platform build and infrastructure work—evidenced by contributions to WPILib, vcpkg, msquic, and Compiler Explorer tooling. Thad’s open-source work spans performance-minded C++ refactors, fixing critical race conditions and memory leaks, and automating compiler/toolchain deployments for niche targets like FRC and NI real-time systems. He also contributes technical documentation for robotics platforms, showing an ability to translate low-level complexity into clear guidance. Based in Sultan, Washington, he combines hands-on debugging and build-system expertise with a knack for improving developer workflows and platform stability.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, NorthridgeComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Portland Community College
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Github Skills (46)
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
lib10
scripting10
technical-writing10
memory-management10
cmake10
c1110
abstraction-layer10
terraform10
c1710
terraformer10
automation10
script10
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
wpilibsuite/allwpilib
Aug 2015 - Jan 2023
Official Repository of WPILibJ and WPILibC
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 270 reviews, 876 commits in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Thad was involved in refactoring and migrating existing HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) code to use a new framework for handling devices. This involved switching the use of `std::string` objects to `StringRef` objects to improve efficiency. The changes focused on adding support for a unified PCM object and implementing specific control operations. Additionally, the user added a new C++ file called "main.cpp" to test basic usage of the implemented code.
wpilibcroboriowpilibjntcorecscore
microsoft/msquic
May 2020 - Jun 2022
Cross-platform, C implementation of the IETF QUIC protocol, exposed to C, C++, C# and Rust.
Role in this project:Back-end & Systems Engineer
Back-end & Systems EngineerContributions:557 reviews, 376 commits, 666 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Thad primarily focused on fixing critical race conditions and memory leaks within the codebase. Their work involved identifying and resolving concurrency issues in the Ping tests and addressing a leak in the QuicStreamSendFlush function. They also made improvements to the project's build and testing scripts, specifically adding the cdb debugger path in run-executable azure script and adding flags and queue checks to QuicDatagramValidate. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on code stability, performance, and build system configuration.
securequiccppprotocolrust
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