Brian Padalino
Nerd at Erebus Solutions, Inc
City of Rochester, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Padalino is a seasoned embedded systems and DSP engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in FPGA implementation of wideband wireless communications and burst modem architectures. As co-founder of Nuand and Erebus Solutions and a long-time self-employed "Nerd," he blends deep VHDL/FPGA craftsmanship with practical system-level design for software-defined radio. He contributed hardware and firmware improvements to the widely used bladeRF open-source SDR project, enhancing FPGA build flows, transceiver register control, and ADS-B decoding on NIOS II. His background includes enterprise-grade DSP work at Harris RF Communications and competitive spectrum research—his team placed top-five in DARPA’s Spectrum Collaboration Challenge. Based in Rochester, NY, he pairs academic training in computer engineering with entrepreneurial experience building open, high-performance wireless systems.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS/MS, Computer Engineering Technology/Computer Science, BS/MS, Computer Engineering Technology/Computer Science at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (9)
fpga10
embedded10
verilog10
sys10
c119
i2c9
c179
uart8
spi8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Nuand/bladeRF
May 2013 - Aug 2016
bladeRF USB 3.0 Superspeed Software Defined Radio Source Code
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:230 commits, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the hardware and firmware aspects of the bladeRF project. Their commits involved modifying the FPGA build system and constraints files, adding and modifying low-level register access and control functions for the LMS6002D transceiver, and refactoring and debugging the libbladeRF library to improve the TX and RX stream functionality. They also updated the FPGA-based ADSB message decoder, integrating the functionality of the NIOS II processor.
bladerfsoftware-defined-radiodefineddfuusb
bpadalino/mysdr
Mar 2010 - Apr 2010
Contributions:40 commits in 1 month
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