Philip Balister is a consultant providing services for embedded systems and software defined radio. Philip has been building embedded Linux distributions using OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project for over ten years for a wide range of hardware. He is an active member of the OpenEmbedded community and has many contributions to the build system. He has experience developing embedded Linux solutions for a wide range of hardware, from general purpose commercial software radio platforms to specialized spacecraft systems. In addition to Philip's development experience, he provides training for embedded Linux development.

He serves on the Advisory Board of the Yocto Project and the OpenEmbedded Project. He completed his MSEE at Virginia Tech in 2007 and lives in Blacksburg, Virginia.