Colton Willey
Software Engineer at wolfSSL
Greater Sacramento United States
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Top SchoolColton Willey is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building secure, embedded and application-level systems across startups and established vendors. Based in Greater Sacramento, he has contributed engineering work at Mocana Corporation for nearly seven years, continues software development at Engage Communication, and recently joined wolfSSL where security-focused networking and cryptography are central. His background in computer science from UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College underpins a practical approach to systems engineering, firmware integration, and secure communications stacks. Colton’s career shows a steady thread of working at the intersection of embedded platforms and network security, often translating low-level constraints into robust, production-ready code. Peers describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prefers solving tricky interoperability and hardening problems over chasing the latest buzzwords.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzComputer Science, Computer Science at Cabrillo College
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Github Skills (91)
signature-verification10
websocket10
fhe10
security10
c9910
bluetooth10
embedded10
encryption10
portable10
sniffer10
aix10
ftp10
data-storage10
x50910
fips10
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ColtonWilley/wolfssl
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3!
Contributions:1 PR, 104 pushes, 32 branches in 11 months
ColtonWilley/zephyr
Jul 2024 - Jul 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:10 reviews, 3 PRs, 17 pushes in 14 days
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