Umich Email
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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SeniorWeikai Kong is a computer engineering student and embedded systems enthusiast with a decade of hands-on experience building, breaking, and fixing hardware and software across Windows and Linux environments. Currently a grader and research staff member at the University of Michigan, he supports EECS coursework while contributing to microfluidic self-assembly experiments and leading an autonomous-rover software team using reservoir computing. An active open-source maintainer, he contributes device-tree and configuration work to the high-profile OpenWrt project (including support for Qualcomm-based Linksys MR7500) and has contributed to LineageOS. Comfortable with low-level hardware integration and system configuration, he also fields PC-build requests and Linux troubleshooting. Practical, curious, and detail-oriented, he blends lab research, teaching, and real-world embedded development skills.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (27)
routers10
firmware10
router10
route-config10
linux-kernel10
networking10
openwrt10
device-tree10
dts10
sys10
dt10
embedded10
hardware-interface9
system-configuration9
integrations9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/openwrt
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 13 PRs, 31 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Umich primarily contributes to device tree and configuration files for the OpenWrt build system, specifically targeting Qualcomm-based routers. Their work includes fixing warnings, adding support for new devices (like the Linksys MR7500), and modifying the network interface configurations. They also demonstrate knowledge of integrating hardware features, such as LEDs and buttons. The commits reflect an understanding of device-specific configurations and hardware integration.
openwrt
sm6150-dev/twrp_device_xiaomi_davinci
May 2020 - Dec 2021
TWRP Source for Xiaomi Mi 9T / Redmi K20 davinci
Contributions:2 releases, 15 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 8 months
redmidavincixiaomi-mixiaomitwrp
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