Andrea Arango

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Embedded Engineer at Vale | ex-Parkway Health

Vale
Mexico City, Mexico · CST (UTC-6)
2+ years experience
Universidade de São Paulo
English, Spanish
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Overview

2 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Vale, where I work on the firmware team. Wrote the ARM Cortex-M service that now handles 81 million requests a day. Previously at Parkway Health. Most at home with hardware bring-up and ARM Cortex-M.

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Skills
embedded LinuxARM Cortex-MRTOShardware bring-upCBluetooth LE

Experience

  1. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Vale · 1 yr · Full-time · Mexico City, Mexico
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 5.
    • Moved 85% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Embedded Engineer
    Oct 2024 - Oct 2025
    Parkway Health · 1 yr · Full-time · Mexico City, Mexico
    • Wrote the embedded Linux service that now handles 22 million requests a day.

Projects

Embedded systems benchmark
2026

Reproducible benchmarks comparing C and hardware bring-up on real workloads.

Write-up: embedded systems in practice
2023

A long-form guide to embedded systems for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Universidade de São Paulo
    Bacharelado, Computer Science
    2020 - 2024

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