Ryan Walker
Senior Firmware Engineer at Wingtra
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Walker is a Senior Firmware Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing embedded and robotic systems, currently building flight-critical firmware at Wingtra from his base in Basel. He founded Rootkit Labs and has a track record of turning open-source tools into production-ready firmware, blending electrical engineering depth with mechatronics and control systems expertise. His career spans startups and scale-ups—including Meta and MistyWest—where he focused on robust firmware, control algorithms, and electromechanical integration for autonomous platforms. Comfortable moving between PCB-level design and high-level system architectures, he brings practical product-minded engineering and a penchant for publishing reusable open-source building blocks.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT)
Github Skills (200)
displays10
python10
deep-learning10
bluetooth10
eosio10
embedded10
entity-component10
git-repository10
engine10
scalable10
infiniband10
freertos10
jailbreak10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
o7-machinehum/MMTMM
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:75 commits, 90 pushes in 1 year
o7-machinehum/utils
Oct 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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