San Diego, California

Westin
Waldburger

Staff Software Engineer

8+ years of experience architecting low-latency back-end platform services and embedded firmware within the semiconductor industry. Proven track record driving technical design, coordinating cross-team feature development, and executing project milestones. Contributed to the successful delivery of the T300 RedCap and T900 5G NR modems with tier-one US OEMs. Currently working on next-gen platform architecture and new agentic services leveraging Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Experience
8+ years
Focus
Platform Services, Systems Engineering
Current
Staff SWE, MediaTek

MediaTek

Wireless Technology Group · Modem Product Engineering · San Diego, CA

Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2026 — Present
  • Lead technical design of MCP-based platform services within the Modem Configuration Framework (MCF) OTA Service Platform, enabling new LLM-driven modem configuration workflows.
  • Develop MCF OTA Service Platform, a full-stack framework and backend service used to manage applied sub-module configurations for modem initialization and runtime procedures (e.g., Operator and Network OTA) across different chipset projects.
  • US Technical Lead for MCF sub-module feature development and platform services support for US customers.

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2023 — Jul 2026
  • Developed core MCF sub-module features to support tier-one US OEMs, directly contributing to the successful commercial launch of MediaTek's T300 RedCap (5G Reduced Capability) modem.
  • Optimized the 5G NR-Lite Custom Network OTA Procedure, reducing runtime file processing complexity from O(N) to O(log N) to accelerate device configuration updates.
  • Doubled modem configuration non-volatile memory buffer size support from 64KB to 128KB, unblocking the increased carrier OTA configuration payload size.
  • Deployed CLI-based automation tooling to reduce US customers OTA configuration on-target test and verification time by eliminating the need to rebuild the modem image across test plans.

Qualcomm

Wireless R&D · Modem Simulation Platform · San Diego, CA

Senior Software Engineer / Software Engineer

Jul 2018 — Mar 2023
  • Developed Qualcomm's Prototype Modem Simulator (MSIM), a distributed backend service platform for simulating and validating wireless network protocols over virtualized end-to-end environments.
  • Deployed automation, CI, and nightly regression back-end services to speed up system verification time and increase software delivery quality.
  • Integrated Prototype gNB 3GPP Upper Layer network protocol features, including Link Adaptation (LA), Sounding Reference Signal (SRS), and Position Reference Signal (PRS).

Languages

PythonC/C++

AI & Platform Engineering

Full-Stack Development (React, Flask)MCP Server Design (FastMCP)LLM-driven WorkflowsData PipelinesREST APIsRelational Databases (SQL)

Systems Engineering

Embedded Firmware5G NROTA Configuration Procedures

Clemson University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

Class of 2018

Let's build something.

I'm always interested in hard platform problems, developer tooling, and wireless systems work.

linkedin.com/in/westinwaldburger 858-731-6733