Ryan Erickson
Staff Engineer at Ezurio
Cedarburg, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Erickson is a Staff Engineer with 11 years in wireless and embedded systems, combining deep expertise in Bluetooth Low Energy, 802.15.4, RF and device drivers with product-focused firmware and hardware design. Based in Cedarburg, WI, he leads end-to-end engineering at Ezurio—spanning firmware, mobile apps, web front ends and production test fixtures—bringing a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to shipping connected devices. He has contributed to the Zephyr RTOS upstream (notably the HL7800 modem driver), improving low-power behavior, radio band APIs and socket/DNS stability, underscoring a commitment to robust, power-conscious IoT software. A Milwaukee School of Engineering computer engineering graduate, he blends system-level thinking with hands-on debugging and power management know-how that often reveals edge-case failures before they reach production.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at Milwaukee School of Engineering
English
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Jun 2018 - May 2026
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:683 reviews, 96 PRs, 425 comments in 8 years
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the HL7800 modem driver within the Zephyr RTOS, focusing on improvements to the modem's functionality and power management. They addressed issues related to low-power mode, improved the API for setting radio access technology (RAT) and bands, and fixed bugs in DNS resolution and socket handling. Their work involved modifying the modem driver code to improve stability, and adding new state events to provide information about the driver's state.
hardwarertosiotembeddedreal-time
LairdCP/Pinnacle_100_oob_demo
Sep 2019 - Feb 2022
Pinnacle 100 Out of Box Demo Firmware
Contributions:6 releases, 67 commits, 13 pushes in 2 years 5 months
firmwareoob-demonb-iotlwm2mlte
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