Anthony Tod
Sr. Manager, Robot Technology Integration
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarAnthony Tod is a senior robotics and software technology leader with nearly three decades of embedded and wireless systems experience and nine years focused on software engineering leadership. Currently Sr. Manager, Robot Technology Integration at Rockwell Automation and VP OEM Platforms at Clearpath, he has led engineering and product teams from early embedded consulting through executive roles at Research In Motion/BlackBerry and Clearpath. He blends deep hands-on expertise in concurrency, device integrations and real‑time systems—evidenced by open-source contributions improving stability and threading in projects like LedFx—with strategic delivery of OEM and robotics platforms. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, he’s known for translating complex radio and networking architectures into shipping products and for a pragmatic, sometimes self-deprecating sense of humor that surfaces in his GitHub persona.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
threaded10
thread10
hyper-threading10
python10
multithreading10
audio-processing9
api-design5
api5
apim5
react4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
LedFx/LedFx
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
LedFx is a network based LED effect engine designed to deliver advanced real-time audio effects to a wide variety of devices.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:449 reviews, 40 commits, 609 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Anthony primarily focused on improving the stability and functionality of the LedFx effect engine. They addressed issues related to transition handling in the virtuals.py file, ensuring proper timing and preventing orphaned transitions. The user also implemented a threading lock in the effects/__init__.py file and other audio files to manage concurrent access to render data, resolving a concurrency risk in the rain effect. Furthermore, they refactored the WLEDDevice class in the ledfx/devices/wled.py file to resolve a configuration issue with multiple WLED controllers.
audio-effectpythonmusic-visualizeraudio-processingqlc
bigredfrog/LedFx
Nov 2022 - Jul 2023
LedFx is a network based LED effect controller with support for advanced real-time audio effects! LedFx can control multiple devices and works great with cheap ESP8266 nodes allowing for cost effective synchronized effects across your entire house!
Contributions:1 PR, 258 pushes, 128 branches in 8 months
controllercheapdelaycost-effectivereal-time-audio
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