Firmware developer / Embedded architect / AI-native systems developer
Building real-time systems for space, energy, and anything with a bootloader and a pulse.

name: Murray Kopit
location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
specialties:
  - Bare-metal C & Linux systems programming
  - Real-time embedded systems (RTOS, ISR, DMA, CAN, Modbus, BACnet)
  - Network protocol stacks & packetized communications
  - Satellite & sensor firmware (Amazon Kuiper, SST Wireless)
  - IoT energy monitoring & smart metering
  - Embedded simulation & test harness design
  - AI-augmented development pipelines
philosophy: "If it blinks, I can debug it."

AI-augmented development of an IoT energy platform with live telemetry, edge deployment, and full-stack visualizations. Zero-framework frontend (pure HTML/CSS/vanilla JS, ~50KB bundle, <1s TTI, 95+ Lighthouse) with hand-coded SVG gauges and CSS animations. Python/Flask + InfluxDB time-series backend, Grafana dashboards, and globally deployed via Docker on Fly.io with Cloudflare edge.

An enhanced Linux driver for the Analog Devices ADIN2111 dual-port 10BASE-T1L Ethernet switch. The driver properly leverages the chip's integrated hardware switching capabilities, eliminating the need for software bridging.

Built a Python bot to play tangled-game.com as a personal exploration of search, heuristics, and strategy.
First human player to defeat a quantum agent in the AlphaZero Amara Challenge (trophy awarded).
Focused on rapid experimentation and AI-augmented development workflows.

Zero-to-production Android development using AI tooling. Created a direct-to-PlayStore CI/CD production pipeline
Fully themed Material 3 app with real-time energy visualization, NFC integration.

• Firmware architect for orbital communication systems (Amazon Project Kuiper)
• Patents in sensor geometry, TPMS, wireless control, and Switch Mode power supplies
• Designed OTA, bootloader, and MAC layer protocols for ARM Cortex-M platforms
• Delivered field-tested control firmware in power systems, lighting, and diagnostics
• Built CI/test pipelines to validate firmware at scale with simulated I/O
• AI-literate: build agent-assisted dev environments, not just talk about them

• 📬 murr2k@gmail.com
• 🔗 LinkedIn
• 🌍 linknode.com technology stack demo
• 🧠 GitHub Projects
• 🆔 ORCID Research Profile

“Shipping tested, maintainable firmware is easy.
Just do 10,000 hours of deep work and try not to invent a protocol.”

🛠 Always learning
🌍 Dual USA/Canada citizen | Open to collaborations and research labs
📫 Reach me at: murray@murraykopit.com

📄 Licensed under CC0 1.0 Universal. Free to use, remix, adapt, and build upon without restriction.

Resume

Principal Firmware Developer | Embedded Architect | Systems Researcher
Surrey, BC | 604-366-6334 | emailto:murr2k@gmail.com
Portfolio: github.com/murr2k | Linkedin | murraykopit.com | linknode.com | ORCID
USA/Canada Dual Citizen | Nexus Holder

Principal Firmware Developer and Independent Researcher with over 30 years of experience. Expert in C for Cortex-M microcontrollers and bare-metal real-time control systems, specializing in safety-critical platforms for power, industrial, and wireless infrastructure. My work is unified by a process-first ontology, treating physical processes as information-bearing substrates from Amazon Project Kuiper satellite MAC layers to FPGA-driven power modulation and autonomous reasoning architectures.

• Embedded & Systems: C, ARM Cortex-M, RTOS, Real-time bare-metal firmware, PIC32, Linux, Modbus, BACnet, RS-485, DMA, SPI, I2C, UART, ADC/DAC, CAN, GPIO.
• Wireless & Comms: BLE (AoA), Sub-GHz, MQTT, TCP/IP, low-latency protocol design, Satellite MAC layers.
• Applied AI & Modeling: Hybrid Reasoning Systems, MCTS, Symbolic Heuristics, MATLAB-accelerated solvers, Heuristic learning.
• Hardware & Robotics: Sensor fusion, electromechanical transducers, encoders, strain gauges, capacitive sensors, real-time motion control, FPGA (HDL), logic analyzers, oscilloscopes.
• Tooling: Git, CI/CD pipelines, Docker, agentic AI development automation, QEMU simulation.

Surrey, BC | 2025 – Present

• Provides embedded firmware development and modernization services for OEM clients in industrial and environmental control.
• Refactoring legacy PIC32 firmware bridging Modbus and BACnet protocols for gas detection systems.
• Focuses on deterministic task scheduling, UART/RS-485 communication reliability, and system safety enhancements.

Redmond, WA | Nov 2024 – May 2025

• Developed bare-metal C firmware for satellite communication Media Access Controllers (MAC) on Synopsys SoC platforms.
• Architected QEMU-based simulation environments, reducing integration test cycles by 40%.
• Led cross-disciplinary mission rehearsals as Primary Mission Test Conductor for the orbital validation of 27 satellites.

Burnaby, BC | Jul 2024 – Oct 2024

• Engineered microcontroller firmware for magnetic tubing analyzers with SPI/UART sensor arrays.
• Built MQTT simulation pipelines for continuous test coverage and AWS telemetry integration.

Richmond, BC | Oct 2020 – Feb 2024

• Led firmware architecture for wireless Condition-Based Monitoring systems, achieving 5+ year battery life.
• Patent Pending: Invented an auto-locating Tire Pressure Monitoring System using Bluetooth 5.1 Angle-of-Arrival spatial tracking.
• Developed RTOS-based firmware for Goodyear, Michelin, New Flyer Industries, and Disney World.

Surrey, BC | 2015 – 2020

• Developed RTOS and Linux firmware for BACnet building automation systems.
• Implemented CAN, DALI, and Smart Motor stacks and built automated hardware simulation platforms.

• Classical-Quantum Benchmark: Developed an autonomous hybrid agent (MCTS + Symbolic Heuristics) that defeated a quantum-trained AlphaZero-style agent on the Tangled game variant. Published architecture and source code for real-time observability.
• Survival Recursion Theory: Developed a naturalistic account of sentience, framing consciousness as a multi-scale survival-recursive phenomenon.

• Proper Space Kinematics (PSK): Author of an interpretive model of gravitation and cosmology reframing space as a uniformly densifying Euclidean substrate and time as densification.

• Touch-Safe Power Distribution (Pending): An FPGA-driven Switch Mode Power Supply modulator that detects leakage currents and carries data.
• Non-contact Envelope Counter (US Patent 5,221,837): A laser triangulation distance sensor to count items in postal mailing trays.
• Contributor to: Luminaire Control System (US 7,868,562), Uninterruptible Power Supply (US 5,982,652), and Distance Determination Device (US 4,766,323).

• Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) | Computer Engineering (Advanced Coursework) | 2011
  Focused on Computer Organization, Hardware Description Language (HDL), and Applied Programming.

• University of British Columbia (UBC) | Engineering Physics (Coursework) | 1992
  Coursework in the intersection of theoretical physics and applied engineering.

• Monroe Community College (MCC) | A.S. Engineering Science & A.S. Mathematics | 2009–2010
  Computer Engineering concentration - 2-year transfer agreeement with RIT

• Certifications: CompTIA A+, CompTIA Network+, FCC Amateur Radio (K2MUR)

• Training: Agile Development, Lean Manufacturing, RTOS Architecture, EMC Design.

• Tangled X-PRIZE Challenge Winner: Defeated the quantum-trained AlphaZero Amara agent on the Petersen game graph. Developed a classical hybrid agent integrating symbolic heuristics and MCTS that successfully navigated state-space complexity where quantum-trained models claimed advantage. (Awarded by Geordie Rose, Founder of D-Wave).

• Survival Recursion Theory: Developed a naturalistic account of sentience, framing consciousness as a multi-scale survival-recursive phenomenon spanning molecular and symbolic substrates.

• Proper Space Kinematics (PSK): Author of an interpretive model of gravitation reframing time as a uniform densification of a Euclidean substrate; provides a geometric ontology for gravitational emergence.

CV

Murray Kopit is an independent researcher and embedded systems developer whose work spans theoretical physics, artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, and complex adaptive dynamics. His research is unified by a central question: what minimal physical and computational structures must exist for organized, persistent, and intelligible behavior to arise at all? A single research sensibility is deployed across each of these domains rather than confined to a single field. His approach is unified by process-first ontology, recursive constraint, and state-space geometry.

Kopit is the author of several exploratory theoretical frameworks, including Proper Space Kinematics (PSK), an interpretive model of gravitation and cosmology that reframes space as a uniformly densifying Euclidean substrate and time as densification rather than a coordinate dimension. In PSK, gravity emerges as wake geometry induced by density gradients, inertial and gravitational mass become identical phenomena, and light is modeled as state-sharing between matter that was geometrically coincident in past density states rather than as propagating particles. PSK is explicitly positioned as an interpretive unification scaffold, retaining the empirical successes of general relativity while proposing an alternative physical ontology. This interpretive stance reflects Kopit’s broader epistemological view of AI as semantic instruments for exploring coherence and implication, rather than arbiters of physical truth.

In parallel, Kopit has developed Survival Recursion Theory, a naturalistic account of sentience in which consciousness emerges from participation in recursively self-sustaining survival dynamics rather than from computation, symbolic reasoning, or linguistic complexity alone. Within this framework, DNA is treated as a symbolic survival field encoding historically viable perturbations of matter, and pleiotropy is understood as an inevitable consequence of layered evolutionary constraint rather than a defect of biological design. Consciousness is framed as a multi-scale survival-recursive phenomenon spanning molecular, cellular, neural, and symbolic substrates.

Kopit’s interests extend into systems biology and complex networks, where he has explored causal graph representations and optimization-based formulations of gene-editing under pleiotropic constraint. His work emphasizes that global genomic mastery is unlikely to be tractable in closed form, but that narrow-band control of specific subsystems may be achievable through surrogate modeling, constrained optimization, and hybrid classical–numerical computation.

Across these domains, Kopit treats engineered systems as experimental substrates for probing the same foundational questions that motivate his theoretical work. Hybrid solvers, game-playing agents, and optimization frameworks are not pursued as ends in themselves, but as concrete testbeds for exploring how structure, constraint, and representation shape the emergence of organized behavior in high-dimensional state spaces.

On the applied AI side, Kopit designs autonomous hybrid reasoning systems that integrate symbolic heuristics, classical search, Monte Carlo Tree Search, and high-throughput numerical computation. He recently built a classical hybrid agent that defeated a quantum-trained AlphaZero-style agent on the Petersen graph variant of the Tangled game. His system combines Python orchestration with MATLAB-accelerated numerical solvers, endgame lookup tables, neural priors, and adaptive heuristic learning, and operates without human supervision. He published the mathematical formulation, architecture, and source code, and built a live observability dashboard allowing real-time monitoring of agent behavior.

Kopit is also developing an FPGA-based intelligent power distribution architecture for safety-critical and high-density energy systems, currently under provisional patent. This work explores power-neutral modulation as a unifying principle for embedding communication, sensing, and safety signaling directly within switch-mode power delivery, without altering average duty cycle or delivered energy. The platform integrates in-band telemetry, correlation-based touch-safe sensing, and hardware-enforced protection with sub-microsecond response, enabling certifiable, diagnosable power subsystems for applications such as 5G infrastructure, distributed power networks, and industrial automation. Conceptually, this work extends Kopit’s broader interest in treating physical processes themselves as information-bearing substrates governed by constraint-first design.

Professionally, Kopit brings over three decades of experience as a firmware developer and embedded systems architect, creating control systems for safety-critical industrial, medical, power, and wireless platforms. He is Principal at Linknode Technical & Design Service, where he modernizes legacy embedded systems and builds deterministic communication bridges between industrial protocols such as Modbus and BACnet. He has served as Contract SDE III on Amazon’s Project Kuiper, developing bare-metal firmware for satellite communication MAC layers and leading mission test rehearsals for orbital validation. Earlier roles include firmware leadership at SST Wireless, Delta Controls, Cadex Electronics, and Philips/TIR Systems, among others.

Kopit is an inventor or co-inventor on multiple patents spanning power electronics, sensing, printing, and wireless localization. His engineering work is characterized by a strong emphasis on determinism, observability, and correctness under real-world constraints.

He views AI as a semantic instrument rather than an oracle: a tool for exploring the coherence and implications of theoretical structures, while physical truth remains anchored in observation, experiment, and constraint. Across all domains, his work seeks to replace surface-level descriptions with deeper geometric and dynamical pictures of what systems are, not merely how they behave. Current interests include hybrid optimization systems, foundational models of physical law, and the design of autonomous reasoning architectures grounded in constraint-first principles.

Kopit holds associate degrees in Engineering Science and Mathematics, and maintains an open research presence through GitHub and personal technical publications.