Erica Qi
Consultant at TangoBreath
Montpellier, Occitania, France
Summary
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Top SchoolErica Qi is a veteran consultant and systems engineer with roots in professional programming since 1979 and over a decade of recent consulting and lead-engineer experience in big data, embedded systems, and architecture. She blends deep low-level expertise (Unix/Linux, C, embedded firmware) with modern stacks and languages (Clojure, Python, SQL, NoSQL) and has built critical, large-scale systems including a lambda-style analytics platform. An active open-source contributor, she has contributed custom keyboard layouts and userspace refinements to the widely used QMK firmware, reflecting a hands-on IoT and hardware-interaction skillset. Beyond code, Erica is a longtime teacher and practitioner of movement arts—meditation, tango, martial arts, and kinesiology—which informs her human-centered approach to design and mentoring. Based in Montpellier, France, she pairs decades of engineering craft with creative pursuits as a musician, sculptor, and flute maker, bringing uncommon interdisciplinary perspective to technical problems.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
North Carolina State UniversityWichita Statejamais, jamais at autodidacte
English, French
Github Skills (21)
c-language10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
qmk10
c1110
keymaps10
remap10
c1710
keyboard-layout10
keymapping10
customisation10
sys10
customizing10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Jun 2018 - Nov 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 4 commits, 8 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Erica contributed to the QMK firmware by adding a new keyboard layout, specifically a Dvorak Bepo layout for an Ergodox EZ keyboard. This involved modifying the `ericgebhart.c` file to include key translations and custom functions for the layout. Further contributions included refactoring the userspace and adding keymaps for the Xd75 and Viterbi keyboards. The user's work demonstrates a focus on customizing keyboard layouts, translating keycodes, and integrating with the QMK firmware ecosystem.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
EricGebhart/emacs-setup
Dec 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 51 pushes in 2 years
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