Robert Quattlebaum
Small Business Owner at Voria Labs LLC
Ashland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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RockstarRobert Quattlebaum is a seasoned embedded systems and connectivity engineer with 19 years of experience building low-level networking, IoT firmware, and bespoke electronics. After a decade at Google working on Fuchsia connectivity and earlier roles at Apple and Nest, he now runs Voria Labs creating interactive light sculptures and custom hardware. He is an active open-source contributor to prominent projects like Contiki, OpenThread, and Android Things, focusing on UART/serial drivers, lowpan integration, and networking robustness. His work blends deep protocol-level expertise (CRC, frame escaping, UART recovery) with pragmatic platform improvements and OS portability. Based in Ashland, Oregon, he combines product craftsmanship with system-level engineering, often solving subtle hardware-software edge cases that others overlook.
19 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (29)
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java10
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javas10
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driver10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
openthread/openthread
May 2016 - Jul 2022
OpenThread released by Google is an open-source implementation of the Thread networking protocol
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 105 PRs, 31 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the OpenThread project, focusing on low-level system and peripheral interactions. Their work included implementing and improving serial communication interfaces, specifically addressing logging and serial port settings in the POSIX platform. The user also added methods for handling active scans and added code for an NCP implementation.
googlewirelessipv6networkingieee-802154
contiki-os/contiki
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
The official git repository for Contiki, the open source OS for the Internet of Things
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributes to the Contiki-OS project, focusing on enhancements for the minimal-net platform and improvements to the native platform's network functionalities. Their work includes implementing better idle behavior, improving OS X support, adding pseudo-LED status output, and fixing IPv6 handling within the native environment. Further contributions involve refactoring the DNS resolver, and addressing alignment issues.
contikigit-repositoryinfinibandcommunicationsdac
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