Alan Wootton
Software Architect at knotfree.net
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Wootton is a seasoned Software Architect in San Jose with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping large-scale backend systems, distributed databases, and cloud-native microservices. He blends low-level expertise (assembly, VHDL/Verilog, optimized algorithms) with modern full‑stack development in Go, Java, TypeScript and React, and has led migrations to Kubernetes across AWS and other clouds. His career spans startups and enterprises—from inventing core pieces at Adobe and architecting high‑throughput systems at eBay and Playdom to building HTAP databases and IoT open-source stacks like KnotFree. Alan is a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep systems thinking (distributed hash tables, Roaring bitmaps) with product delivery and DevOps, often contributing open-source demos and tooling. Notably, he bridges embedded device firmware and cloud backends (Mqtt5Nano + KnotFree) to demonstrate end‑to‑end open IoT solutions.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
na Computer Engineering, na Computer Engineering at University of Southern Californiana Chemistry/premed, na Chemistry/premed at Arizona State UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyBS Physics, BS Physics at Occidental College
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Github Skills (63)
arduino-library10
client-library9
large-data9
python-client9
arduino9
subset8
nodejs-library7
blockchain7
k8s7
jenkins6
cryptocurrency6
golang6
xrp6
jwt6
python6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
awootton/knotfreeiot
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:22 releases, 3 reviews, 147 commits in 3 years 5 months
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awootton/GeneralWorldwideExecutingMessagingSystem
Mar 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:74 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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