Franklin Ronald
Owner at Wiselabs
São Paulo, Brazil
Summary
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Top SchoolFranklin Ronald is a seasoned software engineer and co-founder of Wiselabs with nearly two decades of hands-on experience building high-availability enterprise and embedded systems across Unix, Linux and mobile platforms. He combines low-level systems expertise—C/C++ firmware, device drivers for MODBUS/FIELDBUS/CAN and ARM embedded systems—with enterprise Java (clustered, failover, EJB) and modern web/mobile stacks (Android, iOS, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala). A certified Oracle Solaris administrator and OpenIndiana contributor, he has patched core OS components (e.g., OpenJDK PKCS11 fixes, ZFS ARC stats) demonstrating deep system-level insight beyond typical application developers. Based in São Paulo, he leads Wiselabs’ delivery of production-grade solutions for industrial automation, PLCs and telecom-grade services while still coding and shipping critical components himself. His background as both operator (Solaris/FreeBSD/Linux/QNX admin) and architect enables pragmatic designs that bridge firmware, middleware and cloud-ready Java platforms. Colleagues value him for turning complex, real-time requirements into reliable, long-running production systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Faculdades Centro Universitário das Faculdades MetropolitanasSuperior, Tecnólogo em desenvolvimento de sistemas para internet, Superior, Tecnólogo em desenvolvimento de sistemas para internet at Faculdades Integradas Torricelli
English, French
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Github Skills (12)
c1710
il10
c1110
operating-system10
zfs9
openjdk8
mariadb8
sql7
window-functions6
sqlite6
jvm6
java6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
OpenIndiana/oi-userland
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Unified build system for OpenIndiana distribution components
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Franklin primarily contributed to the OpenIndiana userland project by fixing bugs and implementing new features related to the operating system's core components. Their work includes fixing PKCS11 issues within the OpenJDK-8 component, and incorporating ZFS ARC statistics in top utility. They also added support for MariaDB 10.1 and contributed by migrating the consolidation of AGET. These contributions showcase a strong understanding of system-level programming and the components of the operating system.
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Wiselabs/oi-userland
Sep 2016 - Dec 2023
OI-Userland do OpenIndiana.
Contributions:52 pushes, 13 branches in 7 years 4 months
userland
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