Alan Ott
Director Of Platform Software
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Ott is a seasoned embedded systems leader with 19 years of hands-on experience designing firmware, Linux kernel drivers, USB stacks, and complete platform software for data center and simulation products. As Director of Platform Software at SoftIron he guides development of storage and streaming platforms built on Ceph and real‑time video systems, while running Signal 11 to deliver niche embedded solutions and open-source tooling like HIDAPI and M-Stack. His background spans bare-metal microcontrollers to embedded Linux and visual/flight simulation, giving him a rare ability to bridge low-level hardware constraints with production-grade system software. Based in Florida, he combines long-term technical ownership with consulting agility, often producing practical tools and stacks that have been reused across commercial and defense projects.
19 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (59)
makers10
hid10
raspberry-pi-pico10
bluetooth-hid10
vlsi10
wmi10
windows10
linux10
usb10
dac10
hardware10
human-interface10
kernel10
beagleboard10
bluetooth10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
signal11/hidapi
Apr 2010 - Mar 2016
A Simple library for communicating with USB and Bluetooth HID devices on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
Contributions:311 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 5 years 11 months
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signal11/pic_linker_script
May 2013 - Sep 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 4 months
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