Hey, I'm Clive

I'm a mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Toronto (April 2026) with a minor in Robotics and Mechatronics, self-taught in embedded, mobile, desktop, and backend development. I spent a co-op year at Aston Dynamics Canada writing embedded firmware, and now lead their four-person Canadian firmware team as an independent consultant.

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Work Experience

Aston Dynamics

May 2024 - Present

Connected with Aston Dynamics through their sponsorship of the University of Toronto Formula SAE team. What started as a flexible internship evolved into leading firmware development for their full lineup of intelligent trailer brake control products.

Partnership featured in U of T Engineering News

Independent Contractor

May 2025 - Present

Senior firmware engineer in Canada: owning architecture across all wireless products, leading a four-person team, and coordinating every wireless certification.

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Testing & Development Intern

May 2024 - May 2025

Worked in a cross-functional team of 3 interns to transition the brake controller project from Australia to Canada, leading firmware development using embedded Rust and ESP-IDF on ESP32-C6.

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Deutsche-Hydrapro's Delta brake actuator

TowPilot & Delta

May 2024 - Present

Firmware for two pre-release trailer brake controllers: task scheduling, control loop timing, code shared between firmware and app, BLE OTA, and wireless certification

EmbeddedRTOSBLEESP32-C6Rust

Hydrapro Mobile App

May 2024 - Present

Native Rust BLE library for the Delta Series mobile app. Built with btleplug and exposed to React Native via codegen FFI (uniffi-bindgen), handling all actuator communication and business logic

RustBLEReact NativeFFI

CN Rail

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Innovation Management Intern

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Co-op internship on the innovation management team, which looks at existing CN operations and identifies opportunities for improvement. As a small management team, technical development is driven through external engineering partners rather than built in-house. I was the internal technical resource, reviewing partner work, coordinating feedback, and running field tests across projects in worker safety, hump yard robotics, and freight management.

“Clive was instrumental to our Blindspot Protector initiative. He provided technical support, unpacking the code and suggesting and developing improvements, while also staging devices and meeting with test participants in the field. His design of a threat matrix for our blindspot protector invention was outstanding.”

— Helen Glover, Manager of Innovation Management

Incident analysis heatmap showing alert locations across the rail network

Blindspot Protector

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Aided the development of the Blindspot Protector wearable safety system

JavaScriptElectronHardware TestingGoogle Maps API

Featured Projects

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Picture of the University of Toronto Formula Racing car in a race

UTFR Wireless Telemetry

Sep 2025 - Apr 2026

Custom ESP32-C6 PCB reads the vehicle CAN bus and streams frames over BLE 5.0 to a pit-side receiver, which forwards decoded data over USB to a Raspberry Pi base station. A bridge service publishes incoming signals to an MQTT broker, making live telemetry available to any device on the pit LAN.

RustRaspberry PiESP32-C6BLE

Turtlebot4 using SO-ARM101 to drop a small cup in a bin

MIE443 Autonomous Pick-and-Place Robot

Jan 2026 - Apr 2026

Course project implementing autonomous navigation and manipulation on TurtleBot 4. Integrated YOLO detection, Nav2 navigation, and visual servoing for a 5-minute pick-and-place challenge.

ROS 2C++Python

MIE444 Maze Rover

Sep 2025 - Nov 2025

Autonomous rover that navigates a maze, locates a package, and delivers it to a goal using Fourier-based LIDAR localization, sensor fusion, and A* pathfinding. Full simulation system with live web frontend for development and monitoring

RustTypeScriptReactRaspberry Pi

CollabCAD

Nov 2023 - Mar 2025

A custom distributed PDM solution for the UTFR design team. Includes a desktop app that works with a custom backend service to share files between users

RustDesktopDioxus