Rob Woolley
Senior Principal Technologist at Wind River
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Woolley is a Senior Principal Technologist with 11+ years of experience in embedded software, telecommunications, and systems design, currently leading technical efforts at Wind River. He combines deep hands-on expertise in Linux, BSPs, hypervisors and embedded networking/security with a talent for seeing broader system and organizational implications. Known for solving high-stakes kernel and field engineering problems, Rob has progressed through roles from developer to senior technical leadership while maintaining a customer-focused mindset. Beyond work he actively builds engineering communities—chairing the IEEE Ottawa Robotics Competition, serving in Scouts Canada, and leading a Toastmasters club—demonstrating a knack for translating technical mentorship into measurable programs. This blend of technical depth, program leadership, and community engagement makes him effective at scaling complex projects and cultivating cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin CollegeMerivale High SchoolBASc, Computer Engineering, BASc, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (59)
robotics10
hardware10
eve10
iot10
raspberry10
bluetooth10
embedded10
vxworks10
openembedded10
scalable10
zephyr9
buster9
git-repository9
infiniband9
linux-kernel9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Wind-River/vscode-wrlinux
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
Contributions:41 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 months
rcwoolley/meta-ros
Feb 2021 - Jun 2022
OpenEmbedded Layers for ROS 1 and ROS 2
Contributions:12 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 3 months
roboticsros2layersrosros-2
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