Brennan Ashton has a background in electrical and computer engineering, and has spent over 10 years working in the embedded Linux space. He has previously worked for startups as a system architect in the industrial connectivity and home automation spaces. He is a member of the PPMC for Apache NuttX, an opensource embedded RTOS. In his spare time he has been working with software defined radios and digital satellite communications leveraging FPGAs and GNU Radio writing software mainly in C/C++, Python and Verilog.