Summary
Alan Mimms is a Technical Fellow and systems architect with over three decades of experience designing hardware-software systems, compilers, OS drivers, embedded microcontroller firmware, and high-performance network switch/router architectures. He has led engineering efforts at Lucid Motors, Jabil, and F5, and holds multiple patents in lockless updates, distributed shared memory packet switching, and packet distribution for switch fabrics. Comfortable from silicon to Node.js front-ends, he blends deep low-level expertise (Linux, device drivers, Layer 2/Ethernet) with pragmatic product delivery in enterprise and automotive domains. A published science fiction author, he brings a creative lens to complex engineering problems and continues to ship inventive technical solutions. Based in Puyallup, Washington, he is known for solving hard concurrency and scaling challenges across both control and data planes.
11 years of coding experience
39 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at The University of Southern Mississippi
University of California, Irvine