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)
transformers10
meteorology10
recommendation-system10
linux-distribution10
tuya10
python10
diffusion-models10
hvac10
clearlinux10
deep-learning10
arduino-library10
boot10
home-assistant10
mqtt10
software-update10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
clearlinux/clr-network-troubleshooter
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:9 releases, 31 commits, 25 pushes in 3 years 8 months
bwarden/autospec
Oct 2017 - Jun 2025
RPM packaging automation tool
Contributions:198 pushes, 85 branches in 7 years 8 months
rpmrelease-managementpackagingauto-updaterpm-packaging
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