Holden Ramsey
Software Engineer at Ascend Engineering
Forest, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHolden Ramsey is a software engineer with five years of experience building embedded and full-stack systems for unmanned aerial vehicles, most recently leading computer engineering efforts at Zenith Aerotech before joining Ascend Engineering. He designs, develops, and tests embedded software and hardware for tethered UAVs and has hands-on experience improving user-facing avionics software—contributing UI and multimedia/video stream integration to the widely used QGroundControl project. Based in Forest, Virginia and trained in Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech, Holden blends low-level embedded expertise with practical UI and Android work, including camera control and video handling. He’s comfortable bridging firmware, hardware interfaces, and ground-control user experiences, and brings a pragmatic focus on UX-driven fixes that improve operational reliability in the field.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (6)
qml10
c-language10
user-interface10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
android-development9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mavlink/qgroundcontrol
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Cross-platform ground control station for drones (Android, iOS, Mac OS, Linux, Windows)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:95 reviews, 17 commits, 1078 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Holden primarily contributed to the UI and core functionality of the QGroundControl application. They made changes to UI elements, fixed UI-related bugs, improved the user experience, and updated various components in the user interface. Furthermore, the user added a button to trigger the camera, and also updated the Android interface for camera handling. Additionally, they have been working on improving video stream integration and managing different video streams as part of a multimedia backend.
linux-osios-androidiosdroneground
HTRamsey/FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP library repository. +TCP files only. Submoduled into https://github.com/FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS and various other repos.
Contributions:3 reviews, 21 PRs, 454 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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