Connor Huddleston
Chief Product Officer at Techstars
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolConnor Huddleston is a product and engineering leader with 12 years of experience building growth-driven digital products and teams from Austin, Texas. Currently Chief Product Officer at Hapax and holding senior product/AI roles at Truent and CBANC, he blends strategic marketing expertise with deep systems-level engineering experience. A former performance marketing lead who cut cost-per-purchase by over 60% and instrumented real-time analytics, he pairs data-driven growth tactics with hands-on product execution. Connor is also an active open-source contributor to low-level projects like the blink x86-64 emulator, ELKS for 8086, and the Cosmopolitan C library, signaling rare familiarity with bare-metal and emulator internals. He founded Coban Marketing and mentors at Techstars, bringing entrepreneurial grit and a knack for scaling teams and processes. Notably, he moved most of his code repositories to decentralized hosts (GitLab & Codeberg), reflecting a preference for resilient, community-oriented tooling.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at St.Edward's University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
emu808610
assembly10
bare-metal10
architecture10
bare10
os-development10
c1110
device-emulation10
x8610
c1710
system10
sys10
x86-6410
assembler10
embedded10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ghaerr/elks
Dec 2018 - Jan 2023
Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 202 commits, 162 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Connor primarily contributed to the ELKS operating system, focusing on the 8086 architecture. Their work included fixing build errors related to the `config_emu86` settings and the emulator itself, emu86.sh. The contributions extended to modifying the bootloader, including allowing the system to recognize a far text section and adapting the system to a new a.out version. Furthermore, the user worked on updates to the libc, adding support for calling conventions, and implementing various routines to enhance the system's functionality.
kernel8086linuxsubsetembedded-linux
jart/blink
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
tiniest x86-64-linux emulator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer / System Architect
Back-end Developer / System ArchitectContributions:26 reviews, 13 commits, 59 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Connor made significant contributions to the `blink` emulator, focusing on instruction implementation and improving compatibility. They fixed bugs in the LDS and LES instructions, addressing issues related to operand sizes and memory addressing. The user also added support for extended disk read functionality and improved the handling of segment selectors and page tables. Furthermore, the user added a WBINVD instruction.
x86emulatorlinuxx86-64
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