David Sidrane
Product Development Consultant at Nscdg
Haleiwa, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Sidrane is a product development consultant with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing software, firmware, and hardware solutions that boost revenue and operational efficiency. Based in Haleiwa, Hawaii, he blends deep embedded systems expertise with pragmatic product thinking, having contributed to mission-critical open-source projects in the PX4 ecosystem including bootloader, NuttX, and autopilot drivers. His background spans low-level firmware, device drivers, RTOS work and embedded Linux, plus full-stack web backends and RADIUS/AAA integration from his long-running entrepreneurial work at WifiTastic. David has a track record of shipping reliable, safety-conscious systems—adding new hardware targets, ADC and sensor drivers, and tightening bootloader reliability—while also introducing engineering best practices like version control and build automation. He pairs academic grounding in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering from UCLA with decades of consulting that turns complex hardware/software challenges into deployable products. An uncommon blend of assembler-level debugging skills and product-focused architecture makes him effective at bridging prototype to production for embedded IoT systems.
11 years of coding experience
University of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
PX4/PX4-Bootloader
May 2019 - Apr 2022
PX4 Bootloader for PX4FMU, PX4IO and PX4FLOW
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 31 commits, 112 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:David primarily contributes to the PX4 Bootloader project, focusing on hardware configuration and low-level system interactions. Their work includes adding support for new hardware targets such as the FMUv5X and FMUK66E, which involves defining hardware-specific configurations and pin mappings. They also address critical issues related to reliability, implement state protections, and fix formatting issues. The user demonstrated expertise in modifying bootloader logic and configurations.
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PX4/PX4-Autopilot
May 2019 - Dec 2022
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:464 reviews, 980 commits, 939 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:David implemented and integrated drivers for an I2C-connected INA226 power monitor, along with code for a custom temperature sensor. The contributions include low-level register access, sensor initialization, and data acquisition, suggesting a focus on hardware integration and embedded systems. These efforts are aligned with the domain of the PX4 Autopilot, an embedded software system.
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