Kelly Byrd
Advisor at GuestOS
California, United States
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Top SchoolKelly Byrd is an experienced engineering leader and founder based in California with 25+ years building software across startups and large enterprises, now mostly retired and taking selective advising roles such as at GuestOS. He has led mobile, backend and platform teams at UnifyID/Prove and VMware, shipping mobile SDKs (Swift/Java), Go backends on AWS EKS, and ML-driven passive biometric authentication. As founder of Redcoat AI he built early iOS apps, Golang backends and TypeScript admin UIs while owning production, sales and operational responsibilities through a company pivot. A hands-on engineer who still contributes to open source, he improved the OpenTX Companion UI and model-handling for the widely used OpenTX transmitter firmware. Known for bridging management and technical execution, he frequently steps into product and customer-facing roles to translate real-world needs into practical systems.
12 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Bullard High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
English, German
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
qt10
firmware10
model-management10
front-end-development10
emitter10
frontend-development10
c-programming-language10
user-interface9
hashmap9
ui-design9
graphical-user-interface9
collections9
rpm6
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
opentx/opentx
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
OpenTX custom firmware for Transmitters
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 1 branch in 7 days
Contributions summary:Kelly primarily worked on enhancing the Companion application for the OpenTX firmware. They added features to the Companion application, including the ability to rename, duplicate, and paste models, and also improved the category context menu. The contributions include significant code changes to the application's UI and model handling logic. Furthermore, the user fixed bugs related to pasting multiple items within the Companion application, and made code changes to improve the GUI in the 480x272 version.
custom-firmwaretransmitterfirmwareopentx
kellybyrd/helium-wallet-rs
Apr 2021 - Sep 2022
Rust implementation of a helium wallet CLI
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 year 5 months
cli-walletheliumrustblockchainwallet
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