Wink Saville
Software Engineer
Soquel, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarWink Saville is a seasoned software engineer with 26 years of experience, formerly on Google’s Android team and a consultant for firms like NXP, Philips, and Microsoft. Based in Soquel, California, he excels at backend systems, compiler and toolchain work, and embedded/IoT development, with notable contributions to high-profile open-source projects such as Git, Zig, Pony, and CadQuery. His work on refining git-rebase internals and improving Zig’s standard library and tests shows a focus on code clarity, robustness, and maintainability. He also adapts and ports embedded Rust examples to new hardware, underscoring practical low-level skills across languages and platforms. Quietly bridging decades-old systems and modern toolchains, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to complex engineering problems.
26 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (56)
algorithm10
unit-testing10
git10
algorithms10
python10
compiler-development10
testing10
abstraction-layer10
microcontroller10
c1110
data-structure10
cct10
c1710
parameterized10
stm32f310
Programming languages (34)
Github contributions (5)
rust-embedded/discovery
Jan 2021 - Mar 2021
Discover the world of microcontrollers through Rust!
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 18 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Wink primarily contributed to the "rust-embedded/discovery" repository by modifying code examples to run on the stm32f3-discovery board and updating related documentation. Their work involved adapting existing projects to the new hardware platform, including modifying configuration files and code to use the correct hardware peripherals and libraries. The user also addressed build errors and refactored configurations to enhance the project's usability and streamline the build process.
discoverstlinkrustmicrocontrollerjlink
ponylang/ponyc
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Pony is an open-source, actor-model, capabilities-secure, high performance programming language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 58 PRs, 317 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Wink primarily contributed to the Pony programming language compiler (`ponyc`) and associated libraries. Their work involved implementing features such as executable name setting, OpenSSL 1.1.0 support, and improving the process management tests. They also refactored the option processing code in the main compiler file and fixed a compiler crash related to alternative name suggestion logic. The user demonstrated expertise in areas like networking and build configurations.
securehorseponyponycpony-source
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