Richard Wheatley
Staff Applications Engineer
Madisonville, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Wheatley is a Staff Applications Engineer with over 20 years of embedded C/C++ experience and deep expertise in low-power, real-time firmware across IoT, RF, and sensor-fusion domains. He has led product and firmware architecture at companies from lighting controls to satellite comms, delivering board support, power management, and OTA testing for commercial and constrained-edge devices. At Ambiq he contributes to the Zephyr RTOS—adding Ambiq Apollo4 platform support and fixing flash, RTC, ADC and power drivers—underscoring his ability to bridge silicon quirks and upstream open-source kernels. His background includes designing IMU/AHRS sensor fusion and ultra-low-power GPS/RF stacks, and he routinely pairs hands-on BSP and driver work with stakeholder-driven product leadership. Based in Madisonville, Louisiana, he blends deep hardware/firmware craft with practical system-level thinking that consistently improves battery life and reliability.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, 3.31, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, 3.31 at University of North Florida
c, c#, r, python, java, c++
Github Skills (19)
realtime10
embedded-language10
zephyr-rtos10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
embedded10
power-management9
abstraction-layer9
hal9
dts8
rtos8
device-tree8
gpio8
dt8
bsp8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Aug 2023 - Jul 2026
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:186 reviews, 50 PRs, 193 comments in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Richard primarily contributed to the Zephyr RTOS project by working on the Ambiq Apollo4 platform. Their contributions centered around board support, including adding internal pullups to buttons and LEDs, adding connector definitions, and updating pin configurations. They also made changes to the RTC driver, power management, and ADC driver, as well as added support for the Ambiq hwinfo and updated some tests. The user also focused on fixing the flash controller.
hardwarertosiotembeddedreal-time
blueappio/hexiwear-beginner
May 2017 - May 2024
Simple project to help build your first BlueApp. Open the application in supported browsers to launch the app and test.
Contributions:2 PRs in 7 years 1 month
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