Harsh Patel

Bachelor of Engineering

Harsh has a degree in Computer Systems Engineering from Carleton University. He hopes to work with electronics and embedded systems in the fields of industrial automation or consumer electronics.

Experience

Cyber Engineering Co-op

May 2024 - Aug 2024
Ernst & Young LLP
Toronto, ON

Working with EY’s Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity team in order to conduct assessments of client OT networks/infrastructure, identify vulnerabilities, and provide recommendations in the form of governance structures, practices, and technologies to implement. Clients include a major real estate holdings company, major international airline, public utility, and government agency.

Education

Carleton University

Sep 2020 - Feb 2026
Bachelor in Computer Systems Engineering
Score: 8.32 CGPA (74%)

Skills

Embedded Systems

CC++Circuits

Web Development

HTMLCSSJavascript

Circuit Design

PCBCircuits

Programming

JavaPythonCC++JavaScript

Projects

Autonomous Vehicle Capstone Project

Sep 2024 - Feb 2025
Academic

Project aims to convert ET-4 Cruise vehicle to autonomous operation

  • Worked on implementing navigation and obstacle avoidance
  • Used Robot Operating System 2 (ROS2) and the Navigation 2 (NAV2) library to generate costmap and plan routes

Smart Door Locking/Access Management System

Jan 2024 - Apr 2024
Academic

Using NFC tags to manage physical access

  • Coordinated delegation of tasks as well as other project management tasks
  • Supports multiple entrypoints and users, and functionality to customize set of allowed users on a per entrypoint basis
  • Maintains secure local store of user authentication information and cloud store of access history with photos
  • Implemented ingress detection as well as automated alerts for unauthorized entry along with photos

EPUB Reader/Music Player

Jan 2026 - Present
Personal

Clamshell e-paper device to read books and play music

  • Currently implementing SPI driver for SD Card read/write

Awards

C++ Certified Associate Programmer

C++ Institute • 2022-01-11

certification code: w4gn.HXBw.0NQQ

Languages

English — NativeFrench — Intermediate