Christopher Hallinan
President Owner at Redfish Technology, Inc
Maryville, Tennessee, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Hallinan is a seasoned embedded Linux and IoT technology executive with over 25 years of technical, commercial, and customer-facing experience building products and businesses from startup to enterprise. As President/Owner of Redfish Technology and former Director of IoT Sales at Canonical, he marries deep hands-on expertise (Yocto, Yocto Project advocacy, U-Boot, kernel bring-up, Yocto/Yocto Project) with proven sales and program wins in defense, aerospace, and avionics. He’s an accomplished author and instructor—best known for "Embedded Linux Primer"—who routinely translates complex OS and firmware challenges into deployable solutions and secure OTA strategies. Known as a pragmatic team builder and communicator, he has closed multi-million-dollar deals while guiding product strategy and technical training for global accounts. Based in Maryville, Tennessee, he blends hobbyist tinkering (active GitHub projects) with formal advisory roles and an unusual personal discipline as an instrument-rated private pilot who builds aircraft in his spare time.
14 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
No Degree, Studied Electrical Engineering, No Degree, Studied Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Denver
english is my native language, learning german since my army days, English, German
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linux-kernel
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Github Skills (73)
linux-kernel9
nav9
gnuradio9
radio-control9
control-library9
receiver8
vfs8
adsbexchange8
ruby7
twitter7
linux7
azure-iot-edge7
telegram-bot7
ads7
macos7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
challinan/pscanner
Feb 2016 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 years 9 months
challinan/MacRemoteRig
Dec 2021 - Aug 2023
Contributions:28 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
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