Christopher Hallinan
President Owner at Canonical
Maryville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Hallinan is a Maryville, Tennessee-based technology leader and founder with over 25 years of embedded Linux, IoT, and high-tech sales experience, currently serving as President/Owner of Redfish Technology and Director of IoT Sales at Canonical, where he champions Ubuntu Core for secure, OTA-updated edge devices. He blends deep technical expertise with entrepreneurial leadership, having driven business development, product, and marketing across startup and corporate environments while maintaining a strong customer-facing focus. An active open-source advocate and author, he wrote Embedded Linux Primer and other works, and contributed to the Yocto Project and related communities through advisory and evangelism roles. His career spans roles at MontaVista and Mentor Graphics, with a track record of closing multi-million-dollar opportunities in defense, aerospace, and industrial markets, underpinned by cyber security expertise. Outside work, he is a private pilot (instrument-rated) who owns and flies a Beechcraft Bonanza and is building a Vans RV-14A, reflecting his hands-on, engineering mindset.
13 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
No Degree, Studied Electrical Engineering, No Degree, Studied Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Denver
english is my native language, learning german since my army days, English, German
Stackoverflow
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linux-kernel
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Github Skills (73)
linux-kernel9
nav9
radio-control9
gnuradio9
control-library9
receiver8
vfs8
adsbexchange8
ruby7
twitter7
linux7
azure-iot-edge7
telegram-bot7
ads7
macos7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
challinan/pscanner
Feb 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 9 months
challinan/MacRemoteRig
Dec 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:28 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
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