William Mills
Principal Technical Consultant at Linaro
Germantown, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Mills is a Principal Technical Consultant with over three decades of embedded systems and Linux strategy experience, currently advising Linaro from Germantown, Maryland. He has a deep background at Texas Instruments driving Open Linux solutions and OpenEmbedded strategy, blending low-level kernel and firmware expertise with platform-level architecture. William’s career spans real-time kernel development, voice-over-packet systems, and device drivers dating back to early debugger and touchscreen work, giving him a rare end-to-end view of hardware-software integration. He contributes personal projects on GitHub separate from employer work, reflecting a continual hands-on curiosity. Known for translating complex silicon and OS constraints into practical developer ecosystems, he pairs an electrical engineering foundation with pragmatic field experience.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at DeVry Institute of Technology
Github Skills (44)
meta-layer10
git10
mcu10
zephyr-rtos10
bluetooth-le10
microcontroller10
hardware10
zephyr10
virtio10
iot10
rtos10
bluetooth10
embedded10
userspace10
bare-metal9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
wmamills/meta-openamp
Feb 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:56 pushes, 38 branches, 3 tags in 4 years 4 months
wmamills/ebbr
May 2021 - Oct 2022
Embedded Base Boot Requirements Specification
Contributions:2 releases, 46 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
cortexspecificationedasolidworkssystems-programming
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