Blake Freer

Double major in Mechatronics Engineering (B.Eng.) and Math (B.Sc.) at McMaster University. Graduating April 2026.

Currently leading the Firmware and Software teams at MAC Formula Electric FSAE.

Previously

Embedded SWE Intern at Atomic Semi (Summer 2025)

Brought up several semiconductor manufacturing machines, from PCB validation to C firmware to gRPC API integration.
Defined Protobuf interfaces for machine-to-machine and machine-to-app communication.
Designed and implemented low-level C libraries for STM32 flash memory management, firmware alerts, watchdog timeouts and RTOS-based CAN transmission.
Wrote multithreaded Rust apps to control each machine. Implemented an events-based backend to cleanly support UI and API commands.

Metrology Intern at Northern Digital Inc. (2023 - 2024)

Rapidly prototyped embedded circuits and experiment setups to isolate errors in sub-millimeter optical tracking systems.
Developed Python packages to interface third-party sensors and data formats.
Created new computer vision algorithms for more accurate marker tracking.

Instrumentation Intern at Langtree Controls (Summer 2022)

Robotics Research Assistant at McMaster University (Summer 2021)

Message me on LinkedIn or email me at bkfreer10@gmail.com