Brett Warden
Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrett Warden is a Senior Staff Engineer with 26 years of systems and embedded software experience, now driving platform and systems-level work at Qualcomm after a long tenure at Intel. He excels at integrating disparate components into production-ready products, from Linux distribution and driver development to firmware, test automation, and hardware interfacing. Brett has led teams building unified installers, hardware test utilities for HPC, and user-space device drivers, and has deep experience curating and packaging open-source distributions like Clear Linux. A hands-on quality champion and mentor, he routinely breaks large problems into solvable pieces and helps junior engineers grow while engaging external communities to resolve bugs and feature requests. Based in Hillsboro, Oregon, he pairs C, Perl and Bash fluency with systems thinking and a track record of first-silicon boots and enterprise-grade automation. Outside typical engineering metrics, he maintains an active open-source footprint and GPG-signed contributions on GitHub, reflecting a commitment to reproducible, auditable work.
26 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's of Science in Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Portland
English, French
Github Skills (200)
meteorology10
automation10
llm-inference10
computer-vision10
nlp10
home-automation10
infrared10
json-api10
protocols10
gopro10
weather-api10
specfile10
openvino10
opensuse10
esp826610
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
bwarden/swupd-client
Apr 2018 - Aug 2024
Software update client
Contributions:30 pushes, 13 branches in 6 years 5 months
pythonupdateupdate-clientjavasoftware-update
clearlinux/clr-network-troubleshooter
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 31 commits, 25 pushes in 3 years 8 months
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