Craig Macfarlane
Senior Software Engineer at FIRST Volunteer
California, United States
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Top SchoolCraig Macfarlane is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with over two decades of experience building operating systems, firmware, and full-stack platforms across Java, C#, C, Linux, and Android. He played a central role in developing Cisco’s first Linux-hosted routing product and the ASR1000 platform that went from zero to billion-dollar revenue, demonstrating deep expertise in carrier-grade networking and kernel-level development. Currently staff engineer for FIRST, he leads development of the FTC robot platform, event management and scoring systems, and a cloud-hosted ML toolkit for student training, blending embedded firmware, custom Android, web stacks, and DevOps. He mentors high-school teams and teaches multi-month courses in C++ and Java, reflecting a long-running commitment to cultivating computational thinking in students. Known for shipping pragmatic, high-quality software and improving developer experience, he often operates at the intersection of low-level systems and cloud-hosted services.
13 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (90)
robot-controller10
robot-programming10
sdk10
groovy10
java10
android-studio10
gradle10
kotlin10
violentmonkey9
pagination9
automation9
bootstrap9
userscripts9
datatables9
foundation9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
RobotGirls/terkel
Dec 2016 - Jun 2023
Contributions:22 reviews, 117 PRs, 137 pushes in 6 years 6 months
RobotGirls/FTC-Team-5218
Dec 2016 - Mar 2024
Contributions:14 reviews, 80 PRs, 105 pushes in 7 years 4 months
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