Ethan Durrant
Software Development Engineer II at Lattice Semiconductor
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolEthan Durrant is a pragmatic embedded systems engineer with 12 years of experience building firmware, FPGA workflows, and device modeling, currently shaping bitstream generation at Lattice Semiconductor. His background spans hands-on embedded Linux and FPGA work on Xilinx/Zynq and Versal platforms, RTL-to-GDSII flow automation at Intel, and practical IoT projects using single-board computers. An active tinkerer and open-source contributor, he has contributed keymap logic and hardware fixes to the popular QMK keyboard firmware and maintains projects on GitHub and Hackaday that reflect a blend of hardware, firmware, and tooling. Comfortable writing automation scripts in Tcl/Perl/C-shell and developing drivers in C/C++, he excels at bridging front-end RTL design and back-end physical flows to catch issues early and save engineering time.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Lowell High SchoolMaster of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at Brigham Young University
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
keyboard-input10
c-language10
atmel10
keyboard-shortcuts10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
keyboard-events10
qmk10
c-programming10
c1110
keyboard10
c1710
avr10
keyboard-layout10
sys10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Sep 2019 - Apr 2020
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:8 commits, 8 PRs, 7 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ethan primarily contributed to the QMK firmware project by adding and modifying keymaps for various mechanical keyboards, including the MF68, Tada68, and a custom Navi10 macropad, and Lattice60. Their work involved defining keyboard layouts, function layers, and tap dance functionality. The user also fixed LED pin configurations and updated configuration files.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
emdarcher/chibios-tinkering
Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:86 commits, 11 pushes in 9 months
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