Travis Dean
Software Engineer at Self-employed
Greater Charlottesville Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTravis Dean is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance, interactive systems that span embedded firmware, desktop and web applications, and 3D/VR interfaces. He brings deep C++ expertise—including MCU development and C/C++ signal and image processing using OpenCV and Boost—alongside Unity/C# work for VR and custom controller integration. Comfortable across the stack, he’s delivered web-based control and database tools in Javascript/HTML5 and integrated hardware tests into CI/CD pipelines to ensure products meet FDA, HIPAA, NIST800-53, and HITRUST-like compliance. As a contributor to the popular WLED project, he refactored Arduino sketches into modular C++ classes and fixed subtle initialization bugs, demonstrating a focus on code quality and maintainability in IoT contexts. Formerly a research assistant in VR and secure computation, he blends academic rigor with product-minded engineering and hands-on collaboration with electrical engineers and DBAs. Now self-employed in the Charlottesville area, he specializes in turning cross-disciplinary requirements into robust, testable products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (11)
esp3210
embedded10
spotlight10
lightbox10
c-language10
flashlight10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
light-mode10
esp826610
refactoring9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wled/WLED
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Control WS2812B and many more types of digital RGB LEDs with an ESP32 over WiFi!
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Travis's contributions primarily revolve around modifying and refactoring the WLED project's codebase. They addressed initialization bugs related to the `skipFirst` setting in the `FX_fcn.cpp` file. Furthermore, the user transformed the main sketch file (.ino) into header (.h) and source (.cpp) files, creating a class `WLED`, indicating a focus on code organization and modularity. These changes show a strong grasp of the project's core functionality and efforts to improve its structure.
esp32wifilightesp8266led
TravisDean/TravisDean.github.io
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
Contributions:7 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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