Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
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Timeline
Self-Initiated Projects
Volunteer
Oksana Burgess

Oksana Burgess

Summary

Resourceful and highly skilled IT professional with exceptional leadership and Software Engineering skills. Well-organized, systematic and diplomatic in building consensus and spearheading teams. Specialize in cross-functional and fast-paced development planing and implementation.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Systems And Infrastructure Engineer

Humane Incorporated
04.2022 - Current

Ai Pin product launched May 2024. Official partners OpenAI, and Microsoft.

  • End-to-end solution for hand tracking data evaluation to enable performance optimization and benchmarking. Include but not limited to HIL (hardware in the loop) trace analysis and AI model training evaluation in various runtimes for Snapdragon®™ processor with a dedicated Qualcomm® AI Engine. Delegates include CPU, GPU, NPU and DSP or Qualcomm® Hexagon™ Processor.
  • Delivered complex systems and services in Android OS layer for NDK Camera and ToF (Time of Flight) devices.
  • Initiated and lead UI Framework development to eliminate or minimize daily, manual testing. Resulted in 90% manual-to-automated testing convergence rate. Implemented and oversaw corresponding HIL delivery pipelines.

Harvard Extension School, Graduate Program

Self-Initiated Projects
01.2021 - 01.2022
  • Individually designed and implemented MIPS-like 16-Bit microprocessor. Utilized both software and hardware design strategies, processor design, data path, instruction set design, timing, pipelining, and more. Utilized hardware and software: Altera DE2-115 FPGA board, C++, VHDL.
  • Organized team of three like-minded individuals to design and implement wearable IoT product to help visually impaired individuals to find their way in shops and navigate towards desired product. Utilized hardware and software: OpenCV, Yolo v5, Python, BLE stack, UART, SPI, STMicroelectronics SensorTile, Raspberry Pi family devices, distance sensor, haptic feedback sensor, Movidius low-power co-processor.

Career Break

Sabbatical
03.2019 - 01.2021

Senior Software Engineer

DJI (Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science And Technology Co.)
02.2016 - 03.2019

Chinese robotics company with 80% of worldwide consumer UAV (drone) market and US$3.83 billion revenue in 2021.

  • Architected, led and co-implemented in C++ major commercial SDK releases. Gathered technical requirements and ensured timely delivery.
  • Designed delivery milestones and co-implemented software releases to third party clients demonstrating new features and technologies.
  • Implemented communication protocols allowing for integration of multiple hardware and software systems.
  • Designed, implemented and oversaw Test-Driven Development (TDD) and automated testing for commercial SDK, Robotic Operating System (ROS) using Google's C++ test framework. Implemented corresponding Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines.
  • Trained and mentored junior engineers.

Software Engineer

Leap Motion, Incorporated
07.2013 - 01.2016

American hand tracking technology company for VR/AR (Virtual/Augmented Reality) headsets. Partners include ASUS, HP and Qualcomm.

  • Implemented USB 'Plug-and-Play' solutions to automate driver installation and firmware updates to OmniVision image processing chips, cross-platform USB device detection and memory benchmarking.
  • Implemented highly reliable, cross-platform Continuous Integration (CI) infrastructure adopted by multiple engineering teams that increased development life cycle by 20%.
  • Mentored junior members of platform engineering team.

Software Engineer

Chelsio Communications
09.2011 - 06.2013

American networking company offering high-performance networking and storage solutions. Customers include trading systems and IBM.

  • Fulfilled system, device requirements for company's first Microsoft Windows hardware certification to certify Chelsio's drivers and peripheral hardware.
  • Implemented server-client applications in Hardware Layers of Open System Interconnection (OSI) Model.

Software Engineer Intern

Microsoft Corporation
05.2011 - 09.2011

American market-dominant in IBM PC-compatible operating system and office software suite markets with active areas in Internet search and video game industry.

  • Responsible for monitoring to predict and prevent failures of Linux computational cluster consisting of over 300 machines for Xbox 360 hardware division. Implemented and automated various administrative tasks.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
2011

Skills

  • Work flow planning
  • Cost reduction and containment
  • Project development and lifecycle
  • Programming And Scripting Languages: C, C, Python, Java, Bash/Shell, CMake
  • Protocols: USB, UART, USART, SPI, I2C
  • Systems: Linux, ARM (Tegra SoC, STM32), ROS, Mac OS, Windows, Android OS
  • Tools: RF packet sniffers, Logic Analyzers, USB Protocol Analyzers, Wireshark, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Vagrant, JIRA and Confluence

Timeline

Senior Systems And Infrastructure Engineer

Humane Incorporated
04.2022 - Current

Harvard Extension School, Graduate Program

Self-Initiated Projects
01.2021 - 01.2022

Career Break

Sabbatical
03.2019 - 01.2021

Senior Software Engineer

DJI (Dà-Jiāng Innovations Science And Technology Co.)
02.2016 - 03.2019

Software Engineer

Leap Motion, Incorporated
07.2013 - 01.2016

Software Engineer

Chelsio Communications
09.2011 - 06.2013

Software Engineer Intern

Microsoft Corporation
05.2011 - 09.2011

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

San Jose State University

Self-Initiated Projects

Startup Weekend Organizer and Facilitator 7/2012 to 5/2013 Palo Alto, CA and Kiev, Ukraine

  • Organized and facilitated two 3 day entrepreneurial marathons called Startup Weekend to enhance entrepreneurial spirit of young professionals in Ukraine. Inspired representatives of multibillion corporations like Microsoft and Facebook to support and mentor marathons' attendees
Oksana Burgess