Sam Kearney
Software Technical Lead at Cisco
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolSam Kearney is a Software Technical Lead with 11 years of experience building embedded and networked systems for the entertainment and lighting industries, currently leading software efforts at Cisco. He specializes in lighting controls, protocol implementations, and firmware across C/C++ and mixed embedded/non-embedded platforms, having driven Navigator automation work at TAIT and long-running protocol libraries at Electronic Theatre Controls. Sam pairs hands-on hardware and firmware experience from roles at littleBits and RAB Lighting with standards work (ESTA Control Protocols WG), enabling interoperable systems used in live production. Based in Chicago, he blends product-focused engineering with systems thinking and a passion for entertainment tech, often working at the intersection of real-time networking and physical control systems. An early project background in power electronics and satellite testing hints at a knack for rigorous testing and pragmatic control design beyond typical software leadership.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Electrical Engineering, B.S. Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (197)
webview10
testing10
windows10
abstraction10
web-frontend10
rust-language10
garbage-collection10
rust-lang10
javascript10
format-message10
googletest10
eos10
compiler10
rust10
high-performance10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ETCLabs/RDM
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
A helper library for the ANSI E1.20 (RDM) message format
Contributions:2 releases, 111 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 4 months
helper-libraryformat-messagerdmmessageansi
ETCLabs/RDMnet
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
Implementation of ANSI E1.33
Contributions:5 releases, 2 reviews, 504 commits in 3 years 2 months
configurationprotocolrustentertainmentnetwork
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