Tyler Ferrara
Embedded Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolTyler Ferrara is an embedded software engineer with nine years of experience specializing in wearable display firmware, RTOS/kernel work, and hardware integration. He contributed to Pixel Watch and Fitbit display stacks at Google, delivering a frame-pacing optimization that cut missed frames by 35% and supported display/graphics bring-up for new devices. Now at Heron Power, he continues to blend low-level embedded development with system bring-up and bootloader improvements. His background includes secure web service design for Dropbox and ML/data interfaces for manufacturing, showing a habit of pairing embedded expertise with cloud and data-aware solutions. A relentless learner who values creativity and testing, Tyler brings pragmatic problem-solving and cross-domain fluency to complex product engineering.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteCoventry High School, Coventry High School at Rhode Island Coventry High-school
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Github Skills (105)
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kubernetes10
oracle10
driver10
ethereum10
blockchain10
computation9
solidity9
golang9
chainlink9
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
softeng-teamn/Prototype-Project
Mar 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:14 PRs, 18 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
tylerferrara/k8s-container-image-promoter
May 2021 - Aug 2021
A tool to promote Docker images from one registry to another, based on a declarative YAML manifest
Contributions:292 pushes, 62 branches in 2 months
docker-registrydocker-imagemanifestdeclarativedocker
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