Kepa Zubeldia

🚀 Welcome to my website!

I like making stuff that has never been made before

📜 Education

Brigham Young University

Graduated with a BS in Electrical & Computer Engineering in April 2023

GPA: 3.61

💪 Skills

Hardware

FPGA, System Verilog, Vivado/Vitis

STM32, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, Arduino

Digital circuit design, Altium, Eagle

Soldering, SMD Soldering, 3D Printing

Software

C/C++, C#/.net, Python

Git, Linux

Java, Golang, SQL

HTML, CSS, Javascript

🛠️ Work History

RTX - Electrical Engineer (May 2023 - Present)

Design, implement, and streamline critical path automated test processes for a major RTX product

Maintain and enhance the capabilities of a Python-based web application to be deployed worldwide

Support engineering team with rapid testing and developement needs

Design and develop cutting edge electrical systems to overcome never before seen challanges

Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to create inventive solutions

BYU - Research Assistant (June 2022 - April 2023)

Audited LabView code to automate the training of a 3D neuromorphic chip

Spearheaded the implementation of COMSOL to accurately model the functionality of new ultrasonic transducer designs for our research

Performed a rigorous field study in local and nationwide universities to investigate how professionals fabricate ultrasonic transducers

Directed the creation of various interactive and educational demos to teach children higher level acoustics and optics for a mobile fabrication lab

BYU - Project Assistant (May 2021 - April 2023)

Designed and created small power supplies to aid in classes and research for the BYU Physics department

Applied information from datasheets and knowledge of circuit design to accurately diagnose and fix problems in electrical equipment

Organized the Physics Department’s new electronics lab to make daily activities more productive

👩🏽‍🚀 Personal Projects

DIY-Watch / BYU Student Innovator of the Year Honorable Mention

Designed a digital watch that runs with an Arduino chip and discrete components that is fun to make and easy to program

Led an interdisciplinary team to create simple watch kits to help kids, teenagers, and adults get excited about engineering and become curious about the world around them

Won $500 in BYU’s 2023 Student Innovator of the Year competition

8x8x8 LED Cube / Interactive Display

Designed and built an 8x8x8 LED matrix cube using Arduino and 74HC595 shift registers, creating original circuits and code to overcome challenges like incorrect soldering

Integrated a prototype game controller to develop abstract 3D games, including Snake, utilizing all three matrix axes

Cryptographic FPGA Hacking / BYU Capstone Project

Developed an SHA-256 cryptographic algorithm on an FPGA using open-source resources

Designed a custom AXI4-Lite interface for data communication between the FPGA and an ARM CPU

Developed FPGA architecture with Vivado and debugged the communication behavior between the FPGA and CPU using Vitis

Pizza Boy / Arcade Survival Game for Mobile

Harnessed Unity and Blender’s powerful tools to make a 3D homage to Paperboy from the NES for mobile platforms

Applied CI/CD Pipeline with Unity’s Version Control System and itch.io’s Butler Tool

Designed a Wave Function Generation algorithm that applies quantum mechanics to procedurally generate levels

All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry