Brad Walker
Owner Consultant at Digital Musings, LLC
Louisville, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrad Walker is an accomplished embedded software engineer and consultant with 20+ years designing and bringing up hardware-software systems across telecommunications, storage, aerospace, and medical domains. He specializes in Linux kernel and BSP work, device drivers, FPGA bring-up (Vivado), and boot/firmware stacks, with hands-on expertise from U-Boot to user-space frameworks. Comfortable in both contractor and team-lead roles, he has repeatedly accelerated product delivery by introducing Agile practices, Yocto SDKs, and automated test frameworks. His recent work spans satellite RF flight hardware, phased-array integrations, and porting kernels to ARM and RISC-V platforms — reflecting a rare depth across silicon, firmware, and systems software. Based in Louisville, CO, he maintains a pragmatic focus on making new hardware boot reliably and scaling embedded systems into production.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (83)
verilog10
gps10
asic10
altium-designer10
big-data10
fpga10
code-editor10
gpx10
apache10
java10
netbeans10
ide10
netbeans-platform10
jsinterop10
weather10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
BradWalker/netbeans
Sep 2019 - Feb 2025
Apache NetBeans
Contributions:32 PRs, 342 pushes, 217 branches in 5 years 5 months
javaapachebig-datanetbeans
BradWalker/avare
Mar 2020 - Jun 2021
Avare Aviation GPS for Android
Contributions:16 pushes, 28 branches in 1 year 3 months
aviationandroidgpxgpsgps-tracking
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