Brydon Gibson
Embedded Software Engineer at Ford Motor Company
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrydon Gibson is an Embedded Software Engineer with a decade of experience designing and tuning embedded systems, currently applying his skills at Ford after roles at Dell and BlackBerry QNX. He blends kernel- and driver-level development with hardware interfacing and ISO26262-aligned safety work, and has substantial experience optimizing RTOS and hypervisor performance. A tinkerer and maker, Brydon designs and builds multirotors, airframes, antennas and flight-control hardware—skills that inform his pragmatic approach to firmware and system integration. His GitHub (packocrayons) showcases hands-on projects that translate hobbyist experimentation into reliable engineering. Based in Ottawa, he brings a rare mix of formal systems engineering training and real-world fabrication experience, often arriving to interviews in a self-made outfit.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Systems Engineering at Carleton University
English, French, Japanese, Norwegian
Stackoverflow
1,217reputation
97kreached
18answers
80questions
Github Skills (57)
controller10
rc10
firmware9
autopilot8
bluepill7
embedded6
dynamic-linking6
gdb6
metrology6
qnx6
msp6
altium-designer6
hal5
dmx5125
monte-carlo5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
packocrayons/tremPedal
Jul 2020 - Feb 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
packocrayons/tachometer
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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