Chad Monroe
Principal Software Engineer at SmartRG, Inc.
Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Top SchoolChad Monroe is a Principal Software Engineer based in Santa Barbara with over a decade of experience building embedded Linux systems, networking software, and high-availability telecom solutions. He excels in C and shell scripting, with exposure to Python, Java, and various data modeling formats (XML, XSD/YANG), and deep practical knowledge of VoIP (SIP/MGCP/RTP) and FTTx deployments. Chad has repeatedly taken products from board bring-up to production, redesigned manufacturing/flash workflows to dramatically increase throughput, and contributed upstream to OpenWrt/LEDE to keep hardware supported in the community. His strengths include low-level WiFi PHY debugging and driver optimization, tightly integrated cloud and device management, and creating decentralized build environments that improve developer productivity. As CEO of a consultancy and long-term contributor at companies like SmartRG, Calix, and Occam, he blends field-facing operational insight with system-level engineering. Notably, he builds solutions for severely resource-constrained devices (single-digit MB RAM) while maintaining scalable management for tens of thousands of endpoints.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
AS Network Engineering, AS Network Engineering at Santa Barbara City College
English
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Github Skills (41)
staging10
iot-application10
handlers10
upnp10
hue10
openwrt10
smartthings10
zwave10
zigbee10
tuya9
tasmota9
axis9
holochain9
iot9
hikvision9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cmonroe/feed-wifi-master
Sep 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:33 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
KidsWifi/openwrt
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 1 year 1 month
linux-distributionlinuxembedded-devicesembeddeddistribution
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