Wil Stark
Senior Software Engineer at Keysight Technologies
Santa Rosa, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWil Stark is a Senior Software Engineer with over 25 years building embedded data acquisition and presentation systems for RF and microwave instruments, currently architecting software for Keysight's FieldFox handheld analyzers. He specializes in C++ and C#, designing large-scale, multi-threaded applications that optimize both data processing pipelines and responsive user interfaces. His work spans the full device stack—from low-level acquisition to IDE integrations—and includes open-source contributions to CMake that improved Visual Studio support for C# and Windows CE deployments. Based in Santa Rosa, he combines deep domain expertise in RF test equipment with practical engineering for constrained, real-time environments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architectures that balance performance, maintainability, and deployment nuances across embedded and desktop toolchains.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Github Skills (7)
build-system10
cmake10
visual-studio10
csharp10
windows-ce10
dotnet-core10
netframework8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Kitware/CMake
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
Mirror of CMake upstream repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Wil focused on enhancing the Visual Studio (VS) integration within the CMake build system. Their contributions involved modifying the VS target generator to support C# projects, including fixes for .NET Compact Framework projects and the integration of Windows CE deployment features. They also addressed issues related to compiler options and target definitions, ensuring correct behavior within the VS IDE. The user improved handling of target properties, especially regarding Windows CE deployment and suppressing deployment of selected targets within VS.
cppcmakeupstream
GordianDotNet/VSMonoDebugger
Jun 2021 - Jul 2024
Enables Visual Studio 2017 to deploy and debug a mono application on remote linux machines via SSH.
Contributions:3 comments, 2 issues in 3 years 2 months
visual-studio-extensionremotemachinesvisual-studio-2017mono
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