Yuval Peress
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolYuval Peress is a software engineer with a decade of experience building embedded systems, Android apps, and firmware at companies ranging from Google to Palantir. He has led Android and AR efforts as a principal engineer and shipped platform-level firmware improvements on Chrome OS, demonstrating strong cross-domain expertise in mobile, graphics, and low-level systems. His open-source work includes sensor and driver contributions to the widely used Zephyr RTOS and stability and lifecycle improvements to the CameraKit Android library, reflecting practical IoT and mobile hardware experience. Comfortable across cloud services (AWS, Redis, SQLite) and constrained devices, he blends systems thinking with pragmatic engineering to close the gap between hardware and software. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he brings academic depth from PhD-level computer science training to production-focused delivery at scale. Notably, he has a track record of fixing subtle low-level issues—alignment, temperature calculations, and concurrency—that materially improve device reliability.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at Florida State University
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Github Skills (26)
camera-api10
multithreading10
java10
javas10
driver10
thread10
hyper-threading10
sys10
android10
embedded10
threaded10
sensor10
lifecycle9
spi9
zephyr-rtos9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Sep 2020 - Apr 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:1539 reviews, 144 PRs, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Yuval's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Zephyr RTOS sensor driver implementations. They added support for a new magnetometer (akm09918c) driver, incorporating its functionality. They implemented attribute configuration and streaming APIs for the ICM42688 sensor, adding tests and improving temperature calculations. Furthermore, the user addressed build issues, refined the sensor shell, and fixed alignment problems within the driver code, which improved both functionality and stability.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
CameraKit/camerakit-android
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Library for Android Camera 1 and 2 APIs. Massively increase stability and reliability of photo and video capture on all Android devices.
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Yuval primarily focused on enhancing the `CameraKit` library for Android. They refactored the initialization process, introduced a single worker thread for camera operations, and added functionality like getting camera properties and managing lifecycle events. Additionally, they fixed a potential crash in the picture callback after stopping the camera, improving stability.
nativendkandroid-devicescameraandroid-library
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