Ryder Lee
Senior Engineer at MediaTek
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyder Lee is a Senior Engineer with 9 years of systems and embedded software experience, currently designing and upstreaming MediaTek Wi‑Fi and SoC platform software from Sunnyvale. He specializes in Linux kernel, U-Boot, boot chain security (ARM Trusted Firmware, OP-TEE, anti-rollback) and mac80211 wireless drivers, and maintains MediaTek mainline components while contributing to vanilla kernel repositories. Ryder’s work spans low-level driver development, PCIe and crypto accelerators, ALSA audio stacks and generic platform frameworks that standardize MediaTek SoC bring‑up across products. He has a background in computer vision research (SLAM) and a track record of enabling latest 802.11ax features and spatial reuse in the mt76 open-source driver, demonstrating both hardware bring‑up chops and protocol-level performance tuning. Colleagues rely on him for robust upstreamable designs and reproducible architectures that simplify long‑term platform maintenance.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
National Cheng Kung University
Github Skills (27)
architecture10
net10
wireless10
c-programming10
abstraction-layer10
c1110
linux-kernel10
networking10
c1710
kernel10
w-net10
device-driver10
u-boot10
driver10
sys10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/mt76
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
mac80211 driver for MediaTek MT76x0e, MT76x2e, MT7603, MT7615, MT7628 and MT7688
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:237 commits, 233 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ryder primarily contributed to the mac80211 driver for MediaTek MT76x0e, MT76x2e, MT7603, MT7615, MT7628 and MT7688 by modifying existing code and adding new features. Their work involved refactoring code, correcting for endianness issues, adding functionality to support new hardware, and enabling new features such as spatial reuse and various capabilities for the 802.11ax protocol. Their contributions appear to have a focus on improving performance, adding support for the latest generation of MediaTek hardware, and fixing bugs related to the operation of the driver.
driver
ryderlee1110/wireless
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
Staging tree for wireless driver changes
Contributions:40 pushes in 9 days
stagingwirelesschanges
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