Tim Eckel
Software Developer
Toledo, Ohio, United States
Summary
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RockstarTim Eckel is a seasoned software developer based in Toledo, Ohio, with 11 years of focused engineering experience and a multi-decade background in web and systems roles. He blends embedded systems and IoT expertise—demonstrated by substantive contributions to the widely used INAV flight control project—with practical web engineering and product delivery from roles at agencies and his own firm. Tim excels at telemetry, GPS handling, and optimizing flight-mode logic, showing a knack for low-level protocol work as well as architecting reliable data flows. His career path ranges from running a development company to senior software roles, reflecting both entrepreneurial drive and team-oriented delivery. Notably, he moves comfortably between embedded C-level concerns and higher-level web stacks, making him valuable for cross-domain projects that bridge hardware and cloud.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (17)
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
iNavFlight/inav
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
INAV: Navigation-enabled flight control software
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 41 PRs, 982 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributes to the INAV flight control software, focusing on telemetry and navigation features. Their work includes implementing and refining telemetry protocols like FrSky and Crossfire, adding support for cruise mode, flight path vector data and optimizing data transmission. Additionally, the user addressed bugs, refined GPS data handling, and refactored existing code to improve flight mode logic, demonstrating a deep understanding of embedded systems and flight control software.
flightnavigationquadcopterfpvairplane
teckel12/arduino-toneac
Apr 2015 - May 2019
Enhanced version of the standard tone library
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 7 PRs in 4 years 1 month
the-standardtone
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