Ryan Lindeman
Summary
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SeniorRyan Lindeman is a seasoned embedded firmware and RF design engineer with over 15 years of professional experience and more than two decades of hands-on software practice. He excels at rescuing and modernizing large legacy codebases—having managed nearly a million lines of aging production code—and brings strong architecture, mentoring, and FSM-based refactor expertise to complex embedded systems. At CA Engineering he focuses on QSDK/OpenWrt/BuildRoot firmware solutions for customers like Philips Lighting and Nest, while his open-source contributions to the Embedded Template Library show deep proficiency in algorithm design and balanced tree data structures (AVL map/set). Known for quickly onboarding unfamiliar code and translating hardware constraints into pragmatic firmware and driver implementations, he pairs practical engineering with a passion for teaching others the "why" behind robust software architecture.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
algorithm10
data-structures10
code-templates10
algorithms10
apptemplates10
container10
c-language10
cpp-templates10
cprogramming-language10
html-template10
python-templates10
data-structure10
cpp9
embedded9
iot9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ETLCPP/etl
Jan 2015 - Jun 2015
Embedded Template Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 22 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the development of the Embedded Template Library (ETL), specifically focusing on the `imap` and `iset` containers. The commits reveal work on implementing core data structures, including initial releases of `etl::map` without balance and `etl::set` based on `etl::map`. Furthermore, the user fixed const correctness issues and implemented AVL balancing for the map, indicating a focus on algorithm design and data structure optimization.
containerscppc-plus-plustemplatesembedded
GatorQue/git-repo-flow
Jan 2016 - Oct 2022
Enhanced Google repo alternative that utilizes a git-flow methodology.
Contributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 6 years 10 months
gitflow
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