Matthew do Santos-Zounon

Hi! I'm Matt, here's some of the work I've done:

If any of my experince sparks your interest I'd love chat and dive deep into the specifics, please reach out.

also, I'm looking for places to rock climb in the GTA. If you need a belay or know a great spot to climb I'd love to chat!

Hacking Firmware for Fun and Profit

My first phone had been jailbroken, ran multiple OS’s and had a few hardware swaps; that phone was defintely mine. My current phone came preinstalled with Facebook and YouTube and there is no way to uninstall them. And my laptop asks if I want to update now or try again tomorrow; that’s not my laptop anymore - microsoft owns it. If I can’t modify my computers, they are no longer mine. In this blog post I walk through how anyone can read and modify the firmware in their device to regain ownership. Read More

Dev Tooling & Leadership @ Rivian|VW

During my time at Rivian, I followed features from inception to release: I presented test plans, developing automated tests, and ensured PM, Design, and Devs were aligned throughout.

I built a cmdline tool which enables QA to mock responses from NATS servers.

And I’m especially proud of the rare opporuntiy to manage the entire 2.21 mobile release cycle.

Software Team Lead @ SFU Robot Soccer

In my heart, this experince will always be my first startup.

Working nearly from scratch, myself and 5 other studends commited every free moment to building up SFU’s Robotics Club.

As the software team lead I hosted meet-&-greet’s, conducted techincal interviews, taught lessons on Linux + Programing fundements to lvl up younger students, and managed a team of more senior studends in developing our autonmous software for compeating in RoboCup.