Big Blue
UB Robotics' autonomous outdoor ground vehicle for the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. Bare-metal AVR/ARM firmware with PID drive control; SICK LIDAR, NovAtel GPS, 3CCD camera over UART/USB.
Dominic Baratta
Lead Software Engineer · embedded → cloud
Fifteen years across embedded systems and cloud platforms — avionics firmware on VxWorks 653, EC2 host networking at Amazon, Rails platforms in healthcare.
Selected work
Kubernetes homelab
Talos Linux cluster with Cilium BGP-peered to the network. eBPF dataplane, no kube-proxy, runs the lab's services on a flat L3 network.
Clinic Metadata Service
Rails 7 service centralizing clinic data across a healthcare platform, replacing duplicated reads against a 10+ year-old monolith.
EC2 SG enforcer
C host agent on EC2 bare-metal hypervisors that programmed AWS Security Group rules into the host's L2 bridge firewall from EC2 dataplane updates.