Ronan Pigott
Senior Linux Development Engineer at Oracle
Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolRonan Pigott is a Senior Linux Development Engineer with a decade of hands-on systems and backend experience, currently at Oracle after prior roles including software engineering at Twitter and data science work. He is an active contributor to high-profile Wayland projects like wlroots and sway, where his patches improved session management, xdg-activation, focus and scaling behavior—work that touches the core of modern Linux compositors. Based in Arizona and trained in materials engineering at UC Berkeley, he brings a practical engineering mindset to low-level Linux and graphics subsystems. Notably, his open-source contributions demonstrate a blend of careful bug-fixing and protocol-level feature work that reliably surfaces in end-user compositor behavior.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Materials Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Materials Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (15)
c1710
compositing10
composite10
composition10
c1110
wayland10
dbus9
configuration-management9
systemd9
data-structure7
opengl7
data-structures7
algorithm7
algorithms7
egl7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
swaywm/sway
Jul 2019 - Jan 2022
i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:122 reviews, 74 commits, 116 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ronan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the sway Wayland compositor. Their commits focused on implementing features and fixing bugs related to window and container management, including adding support for focus, smart borders, and handling foreign toplevel requests. The user also made changes to the output configuration and scaling features, enhancing the compositor's display capabilities. Furthermore, they addressed issues within the criteria matching logic to improve application behavior.
waylandcompositor
swaywm/wlroots
Nov 2019 - Oct 2021
A modular Wayland compositor library
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ronan contributed to the `wlroots` library, which is a modular Wayland compositor library. Their work focused on enhancing session management, particularly by adding support for the `CanGraphical` property from systemd's logind. They also implemented features related to xdg-activation-v1, enabling compositors to request their own tokens and added data fields and events. Other commits include bug fixes and optimizations in rendering and backend modules.
waylandwayland-compositor
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