Walter Featherstone
Mobile Communications Standardisation Technologist
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWalter Featherstone is a mobile communications standardisation technologist with nine years of focused experience and a multi-decade engineering background spanning Motorola, Nokia Siemens, Samsung and Apple. He combines deep 3GPP and MEC/edge computing expertise with practical systems engineering — driving standards, OpenAPI conformance and open source initiatives as ETSI ISG MEC vice-chair and DECODE chair. Walter is skilled at turning customer-driven requirements into deployable features, having led R&D, performance evaluation and radio resource management efforts across industry and vendor contexts. His PhD in Electronic Engineering underpins a research-led approach to feature feasibility, simulation and test frameworks that bridge lab prototypes and commercial deployments. Unusually, he blends standards leadership with hands-on protocol and API work, making him effective at both shaping and implementing next-generation mobile service enablement.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, BEng, Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Newcastle UniversityPhD, Electronic Engineering, PhD, Electronic Engineering at University of Leeds
Github Skills (36)
rest10
rest-api10
hyper-v9
openapi-codegen9
swagger9
code-generator9
parsing9
virtualbox9
api9
swagger-ui9
oas9
swagger-codegen9
api-documentation9
openapi9
redoc8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wol190/ETSI-ISG-MEC
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
Github for the ETSI MEC ISG
Contributions:38 commits, 3 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years
etsiisgmec
wol190/tmp
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 2 tags in 1 day
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