Tristan Khieu
Teaching Assistant at University of Washington
Kent, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Khieu is a software engineer and teaching assistant with four years of hands-on experience across embedded systems, education, and product roles. Based in Kent, WA, he contributes to the Zephyr RTOS—adding sensor drivers, async APIs, tests, and emulators—which highlights a strong IoT/embedded systems skillset not obvious from his academic role. Tristan has supported data structures and algorithms instruction at the University of Washington while building practical software in fintech, startup, and student-led projects. He also brings experience mentoring young developers through coding tutoring and leading project delivery and web initiatives for logistics and campus organizations.
4 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics & CSE, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics & CSE at University of Washington
Github Skills (10)
embedded-language10
embedded10
rtos10
device-driver10
sys10
sensor10
zephyr10
spi9
i2c9
git4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Feb 2022 - Mar 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:84 reviews, 43 PRs, 69 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Tristan primarily contributes to the Zephyr RTOS project, demonstrating expertise in embedded systems. Their work includes fixing bugs, and adding features related to sensor drivers, including implementing the RTIO/Sensors V2/Async API for the AKM09918C. The user also addresses compilation errors, refactors and improves existing drivers, and adds tests for sensor implementations. Furthermore, the user has expanded the capabilities of the sensor shell and contributed to emulators for testing purposes.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
tristan-google/zephyr
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:7 reviews, 10 PRs, 103 pushes in 3 years 4 months
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecureinfiniband
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