David Thornley
Founder - Side Hustler at NodeGarden
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolDavid Thornley is a seasoned embedded and systems engineer with over 10 years of end-to-end experience designing and shipping complex C/C++/C# products across security, mobility, telemetry and industrial domains. He combines hands-on firmware and hardware expertise—from low-level assembly and MCU ecosystems (STM32, NXP, ESP) to Linux/OpenWRT networking and cellular wireless stacks—with proven leadership managing large engineering teams and introducing robust agile and quality practices. His career spans enterprise mobile solutions, alarm signalling and IP routing/VPN products, plus deep protocol and schematic-level skills that make him equally comfortable debugging silicon-level issues or architecting cloud-connected telematics. As a founder of NodeGarden he blends pragmatic product instincts with playful technical rigor, often acting as the “semicolons-and-whitespace” guardian who turns abstract ideas into shippable reality. Notably, David’s background includes low-power RF work (LoRa, xFSK), SubGHz packet radio and a long history of platform diversity from DOS/WindowsCE to Android and FreeRTOS, giving him an unusual breadth across legacy and cutting-edge embedded systems.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Application Programming in C, Diploma Application Programming in C at NSW Technical And Further EducationEast Hills Technology High
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Github Skills (51)
bootloader10
spiffs10
routers10
espressif10
router10
qualcomm10
recovery10
esp826610
openwrt10
lua10
u-boot10
nodemcu10
esp3210
modification10
staging9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TheNodeGarden/openwrt
Jul 2018 - Oct 2020
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins or for reporting issues. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git. All issues should be reported at: https://bugs.openwrt.org
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
mergedreportingopenwrtinspull-requests
thornley-david/nodemcu-firmware
Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
lua based interactive firmware for mcu like esp8266
Contributions:15 pushes, 18 branches, 3 tags in 2 years 6 months
luafirmwareesp8266tasmotamcu
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