Walt Sorensen
Quality Engineer at Bonnell Aluminum
Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolWalt Sorensen is a Quality Engineer with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience blending mechanical engineering, manufacturing quality systems, embedded/IoT development, and commercial photography. Based in the Salt Lake City area, he has deep hands-on experience in ISO-regulated environments (ISO 9001, ISO 13485, IATF 16949) including six years as an internal auditor and extensive work on DoE, MSA, and capability studies. At Bonnell Aluminum he builds portable CMM inspection programs, destructive material tests, and Python tools that turn raw production logs into actionable visualizations to accelerate root-cause analysis. He contributes to open-source projects across embedded (Adafruit PWM servo library), web/CMS (Joomla), and tooling (PHP_CodeSniffer), showing a rare mix of hardware, firmware, backend, and QA skills. Walt’s background in industrial photography and marketing gives him an eye for data visualization and documentation that complements his engineering rigor.
11 years of coding experience
The University of UtahAssociate of Pre-Engineering (APE), Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.03, Associate of Pre-Engineering (APE), Mechanical Engineering, GPA 3.03 at Salt Lake Community College
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Github Skills (36)
styles10
cms10
c-language10
static-analysis10
servo10
package-management10
scripting10
testing10
code-standards10
pca10
coding-conventions10
chocolatey10
automation10
php10
pwm10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
joomla/joomla-cms
May 2015 - Jun 2018
Home of the Joomla! Content Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:143 commits, 147 PRs, 1048 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Walt primarily contributed to the Joomla CMS backend by addressing code style issues, fixing deprecated methods, and improving the documentation. They also made changes to code by explicitly declaring method visibility and using the protected methods. Furthermore, the user modified the code in various files by fixing whitespace and indentation and code structure.
cmsmanagement-systemjoomla-extensionsjoomla-componentphp
adafruit/Adafruit-PWM-Servo-Driver-Library
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Adafruit PWM Servo Driver Library
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 5 PRs, 24 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Walt primarily contributed to the `adafruit/adafruit-pwm-servo-driver-library` by adding the `writeMicroseconds()` function, which allows users to control servo motors using microseconds, aligning with the Arduino Servo library. They debugged the code, fixing missing semicolons, and variable declarations. Moreover, the user improved the calculation of the PWM frequency, referencing the datasheet and creating an example.
pwmadafruitarduino-libraryservo-controllerpwm-servo-driver
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