John Walicki
Senior Solutions Engineer at Viam
Ridgewood, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolJohn 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.
10 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
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Github Skills (200)
earthquake10
water10
tellodrone10
nodejs10
esp826610
edge-computing10
watson-discovery10
node-red10
accelerometer10
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sensor10
visual-programming10
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Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
Call-for-Code/Solution-Starter-Kit-Water-2020
Mar 2020 - Mar 2021
Materials for the Call for Code 2020 solution starter kit for water sustainability in the context of climate change.
Contributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year
call-for-codeclimatewater-sustainabilitywatersustainability
openeew/openeew-provisioner
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Provisioning app for OpenEEW sensor
Contributions:4 reviews, 49 commits, 21 PRs in 7 months
provisioningsmartconfigopeneewcall-for-codelinux-foundation
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