Walt Disney Imagineering Software Engineer Talks Rise of the Resistance

Walt Disney Imagineering kicked off Engineers Week (February 22 – 28, 2026) by highlighting a control software engineer who worked on Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance in Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. Engineers Week – Rise of the Resistance Ryan, Senior Control Software Engineer, explains in the video below, “Everything that you see is just a mechanical system, but we have electrons that bring it to life. ” Control software controls everything in an attraction, from the ride vehicles to how something like an Audio-Animatronic moves. It controls the safety behind the Audio-Animatronics, and it gives maintenance and our operations partners the ability to start up and shut down different effects throughout the attraction....