Rob Mckay
Electronic Engineer at OLIX
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRob Mckay is an electronic engineer with a decade of experience designing embedded hardware and firmware, currently working at OLIX after roles at Garrison (now part of Everfox) and PA Consulting. He combines hands-on PCB and sensor-system design with practical software skills to deliver secure, deployable embedded solutions for real-world problems. His early work includes developing a low-cost sensor network to predict flooding, reflecting a pragmatic approach to IoT and environmental monitoring. Based in London, he brings an MEng in Digital Electronics from the University of Sheffield and a background in front-end web development that helps bridge hardware, firmware, and user-facing tools. Colleagues describe him as steady under field constraints and adept at moving prototypes toward production. He often focuses on reliability and integration challenges that are easy to overlook in high-level system specs.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
MEng Digital Electronics, Electronic Engineering, MEng Digital Electronics, Electronic Engineering at The University of Sheffield
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Github Skills (75)
program-analysis10
static-analysis10
abstract-interpretation10
wxwidgets10
linux9
cocoa9
windows9
gtk9
cpp9
self-contained9
static-analyzer9
cifs9
x119
sprintf9
gui-framework9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Rob-McKay/BBCSDL
Nov 2020 - Apr 2026
BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0: for Windows, Linux (86), MacOS, Raspberry Pi, Android and iOS.
Contributions:8 PRs, 54 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 6 months
raspberry-pilinux-windowsrtlsdrwindowssdl
Rob-McKay/libsmb2
May 2023 - Dec 2025
SMB2/3 userspace client
Contributions:1 PR, 23 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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