Bruce Wootton
Senior Director AI And Robotics at Nextracker Inc.
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBruce Wootton is a senior software and robotics leader with 25+ years of engineering and management experience building large-scale distributed control, IoT data pipelines, and network/security systems. Currently Senior Director of AI and Robotics at Nextracker, he has repeatedly led teams to productionize complex embedded fleets and cloud platforms that manage hundreds of thousands of autonomous controllers and vehicle digital twins. His technical breadth spans low-level TCP/IP and drivers in C++ through backend platforms in Python/Django/Celery and frontend work in JavaScript/Angular, plus deep experience in DLP, protocol reassembly and mobile security. He has a strong track record of turning research and prototypes into reliable production software at startups and enterprise firms, including patents in networking and data protection. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines hands-on coding instincts with strategic product leadership across SaaS, embedded, and robotics domains. A behind-the-scenes strength is his talent for compressing complex physical systems into scalable data models that enable operational optimization and predictive analytics.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering, BS Electrical Engineering at Cornell UniversityMSCE Computer Engineering, MSCE Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (3)
typescript1
scheduler1
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bwootton/Dator
May 2015 - Oct 2017
Data aggregation and control program selection for groups of robots
Contributions:101 commits, 2 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years 5 months
groupsaggregationselectiondata-aggregationrobots
avconnect/WeatherCacheServer
May 2023 - May 2023
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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