Tony Kuker
Software Engineer at Innovative Advantage
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolTony Kuker is a software engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience building real-time and embedded systems, now contributing at Innovative Advantage after roles at Amazon Lab126 and long tenure as an engineering architect at Collins Aerospace. He specializes in low-cost, high-quality embedded solutions and has led teams through complex projects from Ada on VAX/VMS to Simulink for ARINC 653 partitioned systems. At Lab126 he improved Bluetooth middleware test and certification tooling, and in aviation he drove software architecture and integration for multiple major aircraft display and cabin systems. A vintage computing enthusiast, he actively contributes to PiSCSI and BlueSCSI projects, including hardware design and reverse-engineering SCSI-to-Ethernet adapters that have shipped commercially. Known for mentoring engineers and quickly adopting new toolchains, he blends pragmatic engineering with deep systems knowledge. Based in Cedar Rapids, IA, he pairs academic computer engineering roots with a knack for turning legacy protocols into modern, maintainable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Iowa State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
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raspberry10
disk10
adapter10
rom10
putty10
bluepill9
mouse9
window-manager9
ssh9
adb9
raspberry-pi9
parser8
samd218
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
akuker/adbuino
Jun 2021 - Oct 2022
Arduino-based USB keyboard and Mouse to ADB adapter. Allows USB keyboards and mice to be used with vintage Macintosh computers.
Contributions:17 reviews, 20 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 4 months
rp2040keyboardsvintagevintage-macintosh-computersvintage-computers
akuker/SuperUPS
May 2022 - Sep 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 11 PRs in 3 months
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