John Walicki is a Senior Solutions Engineer with 10 years of experience designing AI-enabled robotics, edge, and IoT solutions, currently helping customers realize business value at Viam Robotics. He brings deep enterprise-scale delivery experience from a long IBM career—spanning edge orchestration, developer advocacy, and large-scale GitHub and open source governance—to practical product and field deployments. At The Linux Foundation he led community operations across 50+ top foundations, modernizing support with AI-driven helpdesk automation and process standardization. He has architected and shipped containerized Edge AI examples for industrial, agricultural, and mobile use cases and contributed upstream to LF Edge/Open Horizon. Based in Ridgewood, NJ, he combines hands-on engineering, developer relations, and people leadership with a knack for turning research-level ideas into deployed solutions. A BSEE from Lehigh and a history of internal IBM technical leadership underscore his ability to bridge research, open source, and customer outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering - BSEE Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering - BSEE Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Lehigh University
Node-RED nodes for The Weather Company and Weather Underground Personal Weather Station APIs
Contributions:5 releases, 31 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 9 months
weather-stationapiweather-apinode-rednodes
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