Colin Godsey
Board Of Adjustment, Member at Ergatta
Estes Park, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolColin Godsey is a versatile "metal-to-cloud" engineer with 17 years of experience designing and operating high-volume distributed systems, spanning embedded I/O up through cloud infrastructure and data platforms. He currently serves as a Staff Engineer at Ergatta working across frontend (Kotlin/Compose), backend (Go/Postgres), data (DBT, TensorFlow) and AWS/Kubernetes infrastructure, and also runs his own consulting firm delivering embedded and server solutions. Previously he led creative video services at MediaMath, architecting Scala/Akka systems for large-scale ad delivery, and contributed performance-focused native and Java improvements to the popular Pi4J Raspberry Pi I/O library. Based in Estes Park, CO, he pairs hands-on low-level optimizations with product-minded system design and mentorship. Colleen—sorry, Colin—brings a practical blend of embedded systems proficiency and modern cloud/data engineering, with a knack for reducing system calls and improving reliability in both C and JVM code.
16 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies Business, General Studies Business at Kishwaukee CollegeMath General Studies, Math General Studies at McHenry County CollegeMaster of Science - MS Data Science, Master of Science - MS Data Science at University of Colorado BoulderMath Computer Science Business, Math Computer Science Business at Northern Illinois University
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Github Skills (20)
c1110
java10
c1710
i2c10
javas10
error-handling10
raspberry-pi10
sys9
file-handling9
embedded9
html6
mobile-safari6
google-chrome6
android6
android-view6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Pi4J/pi4j-v1
Aug 2016 - Feb 2017
Java I/O library for Raspberry Pi (GPIO, I2C, SPI, UART)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 6 months
Contributions summary:Colin's contributions primarily focused on refactoring and improving the I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) communication library for the Raspberry Pi. They made significant changes to the native C code, optimizing I2C operations by reducing system calls and improving error handling. Furthermore, the user modernized the Java code by replacing JNI calls with native Java file handling. These changes improve efficiency and reliability for I2C device interaction within the pi4j-v1 project.
raspberry-pigpioi2craspberryraspberry-pi-gpio
yesdog/RakNetServer
Nov 2018 - May 2019
A RakNet reliable UDP transport server using Netty.
Contributions:5 releases, 119 commits, 88 pushes in 5 months
reliable-udpreliablenettytransportudp
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