Corey Wharton
Firmware Engineer at Facebook
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCorey Wharton is a firmware engineer with nine years of experience building reliable embedded systems, currently driving firmware development at Facebook in the Greater Seattle area. He has a strong background in medical and product development from roles at Medtronic, Physio‑Control, and Synapse Product Development, where he progressed into senior engineering responsibilities. Corey's open-source contributions to the Zephyr RTOS show a pragmatic focus on stability and hardware interoperability—adding mutexes to I2C drivers, improving interrupt tests for ARM Cortex‑M, and enhancing DAC and logging APIs. He combines low‑level systems expertise with a track record of shipping production firmware for safety‑critical and consumer devices. Educated in physics, he brings a methodical, hardware‑aware problem‑solving style that favors robust, testable solutions. Colleagues would note his knack for improving underlying platform reliability rather than just adding features.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
AS, Physics, AS, Physics at Las Positas College
Github Skills (15)
rt10
i2c10
embedded-language10
zephyr-rtos10
rtos10
microcontroller9
sys9
cortex-m9
arm9
embedded9
c178
c118
bluetooth-le4
iot4
bluetooth4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Feb 2020 - Mar 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:61 reviews, 26 PRs, 119 comments in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Corey's contributions primarily involve modifying and extending the Zephyr RTOS for embedded systems. Their work includes adding mutexes to I2C driver for improved bus access management, adding a new test for custom interrupt control on ARM Cortex-M architectures, and supporting internal connections for DAC channels. They also fixed the logging.async test and added an API to trigger immediate processing of logs. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the stability, functionality, and features of the RTOS for various hardware components.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
xodus7/tensorflow
Aug 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:18 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 1 month
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