BS/MS SOFTWARE ENGINEERING · RIT

Ryan Yocum

Embedded Systems · Full Stack Development · Automation

I'm a software engineer specializing in full stack development, embedded systems, as well as automation and tooling.

also a nvim + linux dev :)

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Featured Projects

001 · Rochester Institute of Technology

Talos-RIT

Talos-RIT is a research project sponsored by the RIT Dept. of Software Engineering. The project seeks to repurpose the ScorBot ER-4pc and ER-V, both educational robotic arms, into a robotic autonomous cameraperson.

Python OpenCV Tkinter C++ C ESP-IDF Linux Hardware FreeRTOS ESP32 I2C

002 · Personal Project

MC Player Portal

A web application that allows users and admins to manage server access. Includes an invite system, auth using the Xbox Java Game server API, and a dashboard for users to find server info, manage invites, and view their account details.

Next.js TypeScript Shadcn UI Tailwind CSS Prisma PostgreSQL Node.js Java Spigot API Docker RabbitMQ GitHub Actions

003 · Personal Project

Bose Desktop Control App (Active)

Building an open-source desktop alternative to the Bose Music app by reverse-engineering the proprietary Bose Mobile Application Protocol (BMAP).

Python JavaScript Frida Reverse Engineering BMAP Go JADX

004 · Rochester Institute of Technology

StraightFlush

E-commerce platform with user friendly interface for a card game store. Features include product browsing, shopping cart, admin panel, and image upload for products.

Angular Node.js Java Spring Boot HTML CSS Typescript

004 · Personal Project

My Website

This very website! Hope you like it :). Had a lot of fun building it, while also learning about Jekyll, as I didn't want to use React. No one needs a virtual DOM for a simple website like this.

Jekyll HTML CSS JavaScript BulmaCSS AWS Cloudflare Terraform S3 CloudFront Lambda Simple Email Service

Experience

Process Engineering Intern

GlobalFoundries — Malta, NY

May '23 – Aug '23

May '24 – Aug '24

Jan '25 – Aug '25

May '26 – Aug '26

— Built an automated recipe generation system for the Onto Innovation thickness toolset, eliminating manual recipe creation entirely aside from initial template/engineering setup.
— Developed a new product tracker used to manage 50+ setup actions per product launch, preventing missed setup steps before scheduled production start.
— Automated defect-case slide generation, replacing one-by-one slide creation with a single batch export; saves anestimated 14 engineer-hours per week and is used multiple times daily across the team.
— Built a viewer for engineers to review defect binning configurations.
— Authored 4 Jenkins CI pipelines enabling significantly faster and more reliable deployment of internal tools.
— Maintained defect analysis infrastructure, including ongoing changes, bug fixes, and routine maintenance

Course Assistant

Rochester Institute of Technology — Rochester, NY

Jan '23 – May '23

— Assisted professor with grading and student support sessions
— Built and hosted an interactive Angular workshop for students

Skills

LANGUAGES

C C++ Python Go Java TypeScript JavaScript Perl HTML CSS SQL Bash

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS

AVR ESP32 STM32 FreeRTOS ESP-IDF Arduino

DATABASES

PostgreSQL Oracle Database SQLite MySQL MongoDB Redis

WEB FRAMEWORKS

React SvelteKit Next.js Express.js Flask Angular Spring Boot

DEVOPS

Docker Jenkins GitHub Actions Terraform Linux

Activities

⛰️

President — RIT Outing Club

Rochester Institute of Technology

2025 - 2026

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Mentor — Society of Software Engineers

Rochester Institute of Technology

2023 - 2024

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