About me
Welcome! My name is Julia, and I presently work as a Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Fikst Product Development in Boston, where I lead a firmware team that's developing a new product for labs.
My previous experience includes developing hardware products (record-breaking air-conditioners at Transaera, CT scanners at Lumafield, IoT sensors for Alert Labs, and electric vehicles for underground mines at Prairie Machine & Parts) and educational products (this math for ML course at deeplearning.ai, the robotics nanodegree at Udacity, and fun underwater robotics projects the University of Waterloo).
Outside of work, my passions include competing on BattleBots (I've spent a year or two on each of teams: HyperShock, DUCK!, Red Devil, Ferocity, and Bucktooth Burl). As well, I love the outdoors so I try to get out every weekend and explore. Everything from cross country skiing and snowshoeing, to canoeing, hiking, biking, and downhill sports.
Travel is my biggest passion. I feel quite comfortable when I'm in a foreign country, my life is packed away in my backpack, and I'm hanging out with locals - be it through couchsurfing, hitch-hiking or just chatting at a bar. My travel page highlights where I've been and what I've seen (albeit, it's fairly outdated).
My previous experience includes developing hardware products (record-breaking air-conditioners at Transaera, CT scanners at Lumafield, IoT sensors for Alert Labs, and electric vehicles for underground mines at Prairie Machine & Parts) and educational products (this math for ML course at deeplearning.ai, the robotics nanodegree at Udacity, and fun underwater robotics projects the University of Waterloo).
Outside of work, my passions include competing on BattleBots (I've spent a year or two on each of teams: HyperShock, DUCK!, Red Devil, Ferocity, and Bucktooth Burl). As well, I love the outdoors so I try to get out every weekend and explore. Everything from cross country skiing and snowshoeing, to canoeing, hiking, biking, and downhill sports.
Travel is my biggest passion. I feel quite comfortable when I'm in a foreign country, my life is packed away in my backpack, and I'm hanging out with locals - be it through couchsurfing, hitch-hiking or just chatting at a bar. My travel page highlights where I've been and what I've seen (albeit, it's fairly outdated).
