Xiaodong Wang
Principal Engineer Manager at Qualcomm
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiaodong Wang is a Principal Engineering Manager in San Diego with over a decade of hands-on experience building embedded and wireless systems, now leading 5G/6G algorithm prototyping and platform efforts on GPU and DSP at Qualcomm. He combines deep expertise in CUDA, C/C++, DSP, TCP/IP and Windows/embedded platforms with practical experience in robotics and drone autopilot integration, evidenced by contributions to the widely used PX4 Autopilot project. His career spans low-level modem and multimedia stacks, WiFi/USB-over-WiFi prototyping, and Bluetooth/UMTS work at Motorola, giving him a rare blend of algorithmic signal-processing skill and production embedded systems know-how. Known for solving memory-management and hardware-integration challenges, he thrives at the intersection of firmware, real-time systems, and high-performance compute for wireless applications.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
University of Cincinnati
Github Skills (11)
embedded10
c-language10
px410
cprogramming-language10
autopilot10
sys10
interfacing9
hardware-interface9
driver9
cmake8
microcontroller7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PX4/PX4-Autopilot
Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
PX4 Autopilot Software
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 8 PRs, 25 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Xiaodong's contributions primarily focus on the PX4 Autopilot software, indicated by the repository context. They've made changes related to shared memory initialization and locking mechanisms within the QURT platform, including memory allocation and management. Furthermore, the user has integrated and updated the RC driver from PX4 and removed its dependency from the FC addons, demonstrating knowledge of hardware interaction and low-level system integration within the embedded system environment.
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