SOLATOM · Sep 2023 — Feb 2024

Microcontroller fleet updater

Software Engineer Intern (Full-stack)

Operations spent hours per week pushing firmware to hundreds of microcontrollers across solar plants. I built a centralized updater so it ran in minutes.

Django Python JavaScript

−90% manual labour on plant updates

problem

→ Engineers had to update each microcontroller by hand — connecting, flashing, verifying, repeating.
→ Hundreds of devices across multiple plants meant a full update cycle took most of a working day.
→ Manual process meant frequent mistakes, partial rollouts, and version drift between devices.

approach

→ Designed a Django + JavaScript dashboard that talks to plant gateways and queues updates per device group.
→ Added per-device status, retries, and rollback so a failure on one unit doesn't block the rest.
→ Built audit logs so operations could see who pushed what, when, and to which devices.

result

→ Cut manual labour on firmware rollouts by ~90%.
→ Update cycles dropped from hours to minutes per plant.
→ Eliminated version drift — every device tracked in one place.

stack

Django Python JavaScript REST PostgreSQL

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