Gus Workman
Founder, Hardware & Software Engineer at Protolux Electronics
Luxembourg
Summary
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Top SchoolGus Workman is a founder and hardware-software engineer with a decade of experience building embedded systems, custom PCBs, and production-ready firmware and software for IoT and industrial applications. He blends deep microcontroller and Nerves/Elixir expertise with practical machine learning and computer vision experience from Samsung Research, having shipped on-device models and complex full-stack demos for executives. Gus has launched open-source hardware like Soleil and Trellis and brings a maker’s attention to manufacturability and production optimization alongside clean, testable Python and Elixir code. Comfortable leading cross-functional teams and presenting technical work publicly (upcoming Trellis talk at ElixirConf EU), he pairs entrepreneurial instincts from founding PCB Labs and Transity with an unusual bilingual engineering background and real-world experience in Chinese-language development environments.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese Language and Literature, Chinese Language and Literature at Soochow University (CN)B.S. Computer Engineering B.A. Chinese, B.S. Computer Engineering B.A. Chinese at The Ohio State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (88)
realtime10
liveview10
elixir10
lidar10
lidar-data10
hex9
markdown9
gdb9
ecto9
nucleo9
distributed-computing9
vix9
stlink9
trace9
arm9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
nerves-project/nerves_system_trellis
May 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:2 releases, 7 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 1 month
gworkman/SoundMap
Nov 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:40 commits, 6 PRs, 22 pushes in 9 months
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