Naoki Sean Pross

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts Richard P. Feynman

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About Me

I am currently an EE student, but also interested in various other things from other fields such as Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics and Philosophy.

Education

Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering (2022 - 2025)
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, ETH Zürich
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (2019 - 2022)
University of Applied Sciences Eastern Switzerland, OST Rapperswil
German Language School (2019)
KAPITO Language School, Münster, Germany
Military Service Boot Camp (2018)
Art RS 31-2. Radio / INTAFF soldier, Switzerland
Electrical Technologist Diploma (2014 - 2018)
Scuola Arti e Mestieri, SAM Bellinzona

Work Experience

ARBO Systems SA (Oct. 2018 - Sep. 2019)

IT and production internship at a company specialized in design and manufacturing of gravimetric dosing systems for food and petrolchemical (plastics) processing. My tasks included:

  • Building an automatic test bench software for quality control. Written in C/C++ with Qt and Lua using VISA /SCIP (IEEE488) communication standards.
  • Production of gravimetric dosing plants (electromechanical workshop)
  • Configuration of the provisioning system for the VoIP network

Technical Skills

Software Development

Advanced Git user. Programming languages: Python, C, Modern C++, MATLAB. Strong OOP knowledge and general understanding of functional paradigms (Closures, Monadic Types). Interested in learning: Zig, Rust. Project Management: Agile, TDD, waterfall.

Hardware Development

ECAD / EDA knowledge: KiCAD, Altium Designer, Autodesk EAGLE, OrCAD. Simulation: SPICE (Modified Nodal Analysis), FEM / FTDT methods for EM. General EMC knowledge. FPGA hardware synthesis: VHDL 2008 for Xilix FPGA (Vivado) and Lattice ICE.

DevOps / Infrastructure

In my spare time I maintain a Linux (Fedora) server (hosting among other things this page). I have deep Linux knowledge and general understanding of fundamentals of networking, IT infrastructure security (ACL, SELinux), and container virtualization technologies (Docker, Podman).

Projects

These are my personal projects, sadly at the moment none of them is actually usable in any meaningful way because I don't have enough time to properly finish them.

Books

I enjoy reading, even though, lately I am not devoting enough time to this activity.

Some fiction books I've read and enjoyed (i.e. would recommend)
And for non-fiction (excluding textbooks)

People I follow

Since I pretty much don't have an online presence, here below are a few people whose content is worth taking a look.