Floridian Gateworks
Owners at Floridian Gateworks, Inc.
Florida, United States
Summary
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RockstarFloridian Gateworks is a hands-on entrepreneur and engineer with 13 years of experience running Floridian Gateworks, Inc., delivering sales, installation, maintenance and hurricane-code-compliant garage doors and automatic gate systems across Florida. In addition to leading the business since 2003, they contribute to embedded Linux/IoT projects—adding board support, device trees and kernel modules for Gateworks Ventana and Newport platforms in prominent OpenWrt communities like immortalwrt and openwrt. This blend of field-facing systems integration and low-level embedded development gives them practical insight into both hardware reliability and real-world installation constraints. They are equally comfortable specifying commercial access control solutions and diving into kernel patches to enable sensors, CAN controllers and network drivers on specialized boards.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
bootloader10
routers10
router10
kernel-module10
spi10
linux-kernel10
networking10
i2c10
openwrt10
gpio10
flash10
device-tree10
dts10
sys10
dt10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/openwrt
Feb 2019 - Apr 2025
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. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 37 comments in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Floridian's contributions primarily involve modifying and updating the OpenWrt build system for embedded systems, specifically focusing on Gateworks Ventana boards. They added support for new hardware like the GW553x, GW5904, GW5907, GW5910, GW5912, GW5913, and the Venice series of boards. They also backported kernel patches, including those for various devices and features like the FXOS8700 accelerometer, Bluetooth, and PCI support, and addressed several build and performance-related issues.
mergedopenwrtinspull-requestsstaging
immortalwrt/immortalwrt
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
An opensource OpenWrt variant for mainland China users.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Floridian's contributions primarily involve modifications to the OpenWrt variant, focusing on adding and supporting hardware components and drivers for embedded systems. They added support for several Gateworks Ventana and Newport boards by introducing device tree entries and board-specific configurations. Additionally, they integrated various kernel modules for functionalities such as I2C sensors (FXOS8700, LSM6DSx), CAN controllers (MCP251x), and network drivers (LAN743x).
chinaopenwrtmainland-china
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