Dan Walkes
Owner And Founder at University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Walkes is an embedded systems and IoT software engineer with 16+ years of experience building firmware, kernel drivers, and Linux-based products from concept to production. As founder of Trellis-Logic he has delivered high-volume storage firmware, wearable device software, and optimized OpenCV-based vision pipelines, and he maintains Mender support for NVIDIA Tegra Jetson platforms. He blends low-level C/assembly expertise on resource-constrained MCUs and real-time systems with higher-level C++, Java, and Android app development, plus hands-on PCB and analog circuit design. His contributions to BSP/kernel and U-Boot improvements for Jetson and to OpenCV installation tooling show a practical bent for making complex platforms reproducible and container-friendly. A former VP/Director of Engineering and university lecturer, he pairs leadership and curriculum development with automated grading and CI workflows for embedded courses. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he’s equally at home debugging Linux kernel modules as architecting scalable embedded products shipped to millions.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE Electrical Engineering, BSEE Electrical Engineering at South Dakota State UniversityMSEE Electrical Engineering, MSEE Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado BoulderBon Homme High School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (28)
bsp10
opencv10
scripting10
mutex10
linux10
c1110
linux-kernel10
nvidia-jetson10
c1710
kernel10
script10
device-driver10
u-boot10
sys10
sh10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
martinezjavier/ldd3
Aug 2019 - Jul 2021
Linux Device Drivers 3 examples updated to work in recent kernels
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 37 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily focused on updating the examples in the repository to work with more recent kernels. Their contributions included refactoring the code to use mutexes and updating the code to align with kernel version changes. They also made improvements to the AIO read and write functions. Additionally, the user worked on addressing kernel compatibility issues and incorporating updates based on the Linux kernel mailing list.
linux-device-driver
OE4T/meta-tegra
Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
BSP layer for NVIDIA Jetson platforms, based on L4T
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 30 commits, 30 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the BSP layer for NVIDIA Jetson platforms, focusing on kernel and U-Boot modifications. They updated kernel configurations, added U-Boot utilities for Mender support, and addressed build issues. The contributions also involved fixing transaction check errors with libvisionworks and supporting glob patterns for container runtime file exclusions, impacting the integration with containerized environments.
bspnvidia-jetson
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