Doug Kerr
Biomedical Equipment Technician (Internal Tools & Data Engineer)
Knoxville Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDoug Kerr is a data-focused engineer with an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and eight years of experience building production ETL pipelines, automation, and internal tools that translate technical data into operational impact. At ISS Solutions he built Python-driven reporting and geospatial visualizations that cut reporting time by up to 90% and reduced technician travel by 15%, eliminating manual Excel work. He has delivered API-driven consolidation tools for enterprise use at Zoom and was a top contributor to comma.ai, where his refactors and preprocessing optimizations reduced vision-system latency by 33% and improved long-term maintainability of a widely used open-source ADAS platform. Comfortable across backend engineering, data transformation, and mapping tech, Doug combines hands-on coding with systems thinking to turn messy operational datasets into auditable, high-throughput workflows. Notably, his work spans both regulated biomedical operations and automotive safety software, showing an uncommon mix of domain breadth and production-grade engineering.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at West Virginia UniversityEngineering, Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Japanese
Github Skills (17)
dbconnection10
python10
dbcp10
numpy10
system10
driver10
sys10
automotive10
robotics9
fileio9
file-access9
refactoring9
file-processing9
file-handling9
compiler9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
commaai/openpilot
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
openpilot is an operating system for robotics. Currently, it upgrades the driver assistance system on 300+ supported cars.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automotive Software Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automotive Software EngineerContributions:13 commits, 29 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `openpilot` project, focusing on vehicle interface and control systems. They made extensive changes to car-specific interface files, implementing and modifying vehicle parameter configurations, and unit conversions. The user also refactored code for improved efficiency and accuracy, as evident in the updates to `numpy_fast.py` and related files. Their contributions directly impact the driver-assistance capabilities of the openpilot system.
driveroperating-systemroboticsdriver-assistance-systemsadvanced-driver-assistance-systems
commaai/opendbc
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
a Python API for your car
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 2 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Doug primarily focused on updating the `generator.py` file within the repository. Their contributions involved optimizing the DBC file generation process by improving readability, changing file writing modes for speed, and incorporating error handling using "with" statements. Furthermore, the user refactored the DBC processing logic to allow for the processing of files in the proper order. They also modified the file processing to remove potentially redundant code.
pythonautomotivedbcreverse-engineering
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