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. And in order to make that happen, I write code to bring all those systems together.
Rise of the Resistance is where I got my start with Walt Disney Imagineering. I have a background in computer science and I knew that I wanted to do more than regular software development. With control software engineering, I get to do things that I never expected I would be able to do, like work on an attraction as big and cool as Rise of the Resistance.
Keep an eye on the Walt Disney Imagineering social media channels or WDWNT for more from Engineers Week.
Star Wars: Rise of the Resistance at Disneyland was recently refurbished before timeline changes to Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge. Watch our POV video of Rise of the Resistance below.
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