Tj Frost
Machinist at Bosch Rexroth
Greer, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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RockstarTj Frost is a machinist and electrical engineer with nine years of hands-on experience bridging mechanical fabrication and embedded systems work. Based in Greer, South Carolina, he currently applies his trade expertise at Bosch Rexroth while contributing to industrial IoT open-source projects. On GitHub he’s contributed significant backend and embedded fixes to the Apache PLC4X project, resolving memory leaks, tightening compiler warnings, and enhancing Siemens S7 driver read/write support for diverse data types and arrays. That blend of shop-floor machining and low-level software troubleshooting gives him a practical edge in systems integration and hardware-software interoperability. Colleagues rely on him to translate real-world equipment constraints into robust, testable code and firmware improvements. He’s comfortable working across disciplines and improving reliability both in metal and in code.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (12)
c1710
memory-management10
embedded10
c1110
sys10
java9
data-structure9
data-structures9
javas9
algorithms8
testing8
modbus4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/plc4x
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
PLC4X The Industrial IoT adapter
Role in this project:
Backend & Embedded Systems Engineer
Backend & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:1 review, 22 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Tj primarily contributed to the Apache PLC4X project by fixing memory leaks and compiler warnings, and adding features to the S7 driver, particularly related to writing and reading data to and from Siemens S7 PLCs. They refactored code for better connection string parsing and added new features to loopback tests to validate the write and read functionality, including the support for various data types and data arrays. Additionally, the user worked on updating includes and fixing inconsistencies in the generated source code.
pythonadapterfirmatamodbusindustrial-iot
thomas169/sim7
Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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