Alf Watt
Sr. Engineering Manager, Navigation
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlf Watt is a hands-on engineering leader based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and shipping software and firmware across automotive, mobile, and wireless networking domains. Currently leading infotainment navigation teams at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies, he combines systems-level thinking with a track record of shipping iOS and macOS apps and mobile telemetry SDKs. His background includes managing cross-functional teams at Lucid, Generac, Mapbox and Ruckus, and early work at Apple where he owned Wi‑Fi user experience on OS X—giving him deep expertise in wireless UX and diagnostics. Alf also founded product-focused ventures (Masu Networks, iStumbler Labs) that explored crypto-driven services and practical tools for Wi‑Fi discovery, reflecting an entrepreneurial bent and ability to take prototypes to market. He excels at bridging product, firmware and cloud telemetry to deliver reliable in-vehicle and mobile experiences, and often pairs hands-on coding with strategic architecture and team development.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Graphics and Animation, Computer Graphics and Animation at Minneapolis College of Art and Design
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (91)
mapbox-gl10
geojson10
oop-principles10
refactor10
openstreetmap10
qt10
monorepo10
maps10
swift10
opengl10
oop10
vector-tiles10
java10
android10
macos10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
iStumblerLabs/KitBridge
Oct 2018 - May 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 60 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 7 months
alfwatt/Soup
Jun 2015 - Mar 2022
An Objective-C persistance framework modeled on the Apple Newton API
Contributions:74 commits, 2 PRs, 43 pushes in 6 years 10 months
objective-cioskitbridgemacosnewton
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