Paul Gardner-Stephen
Adelaide, South Australia
Summary
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SeniorPaul Gardner-Stephen is an adjunct associate professor and systems engineer with over 15 years of experience building resilient, self-sovereign communications and retrocomputing systems. He founded the Serval Project—known for disaster communications—and leads the MEGA65 retrocomputing initiative, combining practical FPGA/VHDL expertise with server architecture and compression work. His background spans systems administration across Solaris, Linux and FreeBSD, academic research in rural and humanitarian telecommunications, and a PhD in Computer Systems Engineering. Paul moves fluidly between hands-on engineering and research leadership, having created production-ready mesh networking tools used in real-world emergencies. He is based in Adelaide and known for tackling high-impact problems where constrained networks and offline resilience are critical. An uncommon blend of retro-hardware passion and modern network resilience informs his inventive, field-proven solutions.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (143)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
gardners/OS2019StudentMaterial
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:166 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
servalproject/openwrt
Jan 2017 - Aug 2019
OpenWRT distribution for Serval Mesh Extenders
Contributions:54 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 2 years 7 months
openwrt
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