Ian Seyler
Founder at OpenText
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolIan Seyler is a founder and seasoned systems engineer with 15 years of experience building and supporting complex IT and low-level software systems from Stratford, Ontario. He combines hands-on infrastructure leadership at OpenText with deep kernel and driver development showcased by his work on the BareMetal exo-kernel projects, where he implemented networking drivers, disk functions, and build automation. His background spans enterprise systems administration, VMware and network engineering, and automation of build and release processes, reflecting a pragmatic blend of operational reliability and low-level programming expertise. As a founder of Return Infinity since 2012, he brings entrepreneurial initiative to long-running technical projects and tooling. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to move between assembly-level OS internals and high-level production support, making him valuable for projects that require both deep technical depth and operational maturity.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Business Programming and Applications, Business Programming and Applications at Conestoga College
English, French
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Github Skills (25)
assembly10
bare-metal10
scripting10
qemu10
bash10
network-programming10
x8610
ethernet10
kernel10
script10
pci10
driver10
device-driver10
x86-6410
assemble10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-OS-legacy
May 2011 - Jun 2017
BareMetal is a 64-bit OS for x86-64 based computers. The OS is written entirely in Assembly while applications can be written in Assembly, C/C++, and Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:318 commits, 29 PRs, 56 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on the low-level implementation of an operating system, including the addition and modification of various system calls. Their contributions include incorporating IPv4 functions, TCP/UDP handling, and the restructuring of file and Ethernet functionalities. They made changes to the system's memory management, and added a CLI interface to enable more user interaction within the OS.
kernel64-bitrustoperating-systemlinux
ReturnInfinity/BareMetal-OS
Jun 2013 - Jan 2023
Build script for BareMetal OS and its related utilities
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:121 commits, 41 PRs, 223 pushes in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ian primarily focused on automating the build, testing, and deployment processes for BareMetal OS. They created and modified various shell scripts (`.sh` files) to handle tasks such as building the OS, formatting the disk image, creating and writing applications to the image, and running the OS in a QEMU environment. Additionally, the user made changes to the build process to optimize tab autocompletion and updated the build process to use the updated BMFS tool.
build-scriptsbaremetalbaremetal-os
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