Ryan Caltabiano
Principal Product Strategy Architect
San Antonio, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRyan Caltabiano is a Principal Product Strategy Architect based in the San Antonio area with over 15 years of software development experience and a decade focused on shipping the last 10%—build distribution, optimizations, and live data/patch delivery—to elevate player experiences. He has progressed through technical and product leadership roles at Unity (including Content Build Pipeline and Games & Emerging Tech) and a stint as Unity Engine Guru at Bonfire Studios, blending hands-on engineering with strategic product direction. Deeply versed in gameplay systems and build pipelines, he pairs low-level embedded work—evidenced by firmware fixes for the popular qmk/qmk_firmware Ergodox EZ keyboard—with large-scale content tooling. Known for closing the gap between prototypes and production, he’s comfortable moving between embedded C/C++ tweaks and architecting distributed build and patch systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex release constraints into reliable delivery mechanisms that directly improve player retention and live operations.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Mary Washington
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
c-language10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
c-programming10
c1110
c1710
sys10
rgb10
embedded10
rgb-controller10
cprogramming-language10
atmel9
displays9
ole9
integrations9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 97 commits, 122 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan's commits primarily focus on modifying the keyboard firmware, specifically for the Ergodox EZ keyboard. Their contributions involve fixing initialization issues and adjusting the configuration of RGB LEDs within the keyboard firmware. The code changes demonstrate an understanding of embedded C/C++ programming, dealing with hardware configuration, and modifying keyboard layouts.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
XScorpion2/maxmix-software
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Maxmix volume mixer software repository
Contributions:82 pushes, 39 branches in 11 months
linuxvolumemixer
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