Ian Wakely
Security Engineer
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan Wakely is a security-focused embedded systems engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, modular firmware and hardware integrations. He has a strong track record of board bring-up and low-level device support, contributing to the well-known Zephyr RTOS by adding multiple new boards and enabling platform-specific features like NeoPixel support. His background spans medical device architecture, automated hardware/software testing suites, and embedded security practices, blending academic rigor from a MS/BS in Computer Engineering with practical product delivery. Ian excels at translating customer requirements into data-driven, decentralized architectures and brings hands-on experience connecting microcontroller hardware to secure real-world systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Michigan Technological University
Github Skills (10)
embedded-language10
embedded10
rtos10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
rp20409
esp329
iot9
bluetooth-le4
bluetooth4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Nov 2021 - Mar 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 6 PRs, 71 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ian contributed to the Zephyr RTOS project by adding support for new hardware platforms, specifically the Wiznet W5500 Evaluation Pico, the Adafruit QT Py RP2040, and the Adafruit QT Py ESP32S3. Their work included creating device tree files, enabling features like NeoPixel support on the Adafruit boards, and updating release notes to reflect new board additions. The user's contributions demonstrate a focus on board bring-up, hardware integration, and adapting the Zephyr RTOS to new microcontroller-based hardware.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
raveious/WebPowerSwitch
Dec 2014 - Nov 2016
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes in 1 year 11 months
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