Derald Woods
Engineering Manager at Woods Technical Solutions
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerald Woods is an engineering manager and embedded systems leader with 11 years of focused experience designing and shipping embedded Linux and MCU products from prototype to manufacture. He has led and mentored cross-functional teams, defined BSPs and update strategies (A/B), and architected unified build systems used across product lines, most recently managing an 11-person embedded software group that delivered a ground-up trail camera platform to JDM manufacturing. Comfortable both as a hands-on developer (C/C++, Buildroot, U-Boot, kernel drivers) and a technical manager, he brings deep practical knowledge of factory bring-up, ODM/JDM collaboration, and CI/CD for embedded workflows. His background spans medical-device compliance, FPGA SoC integration, and vehicle gateway platforms, reflecting an ability to translate complex hardware constraints into robust, maintainable software. Based in the Atlanta metro area, he pairs a teaching mindset with open-source pragmatism, often guiding teams to adopt cost-effective OSS solutions and long-lived hardware platforms.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering at Tennessee State University
Github Skills (52)
startup10
software-design10
buildroot10
embedded-linux10
timing10
pad10
lvgl10
driver10
touchscreen10
busybox9
libvirt9
nrf528409
linux9
software-update9
kernel9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
WoodsTechnicalSolutions/lvgl
Jan 2019 - Nov 2020
Graphics library to create embedded GUI with easy-to-use graphical elements, beautiful visual effects and low memory footprint. Anti-aliasing, opacity, animations using only one frame buffer.
Contributions:1878 pushes, 98 branches, 25 tags in 1 year 10 months
memoryantimemory-footprintelementsgraphics-library
woodsts/linux-xlnx
Sep 2018 - Mar 2025
The official Linux kernel from Xilinx
Contributions:642 pushes, 18 branches, 104 tags in 6 years 7 months
kernelxilinxmanjarolinuxlinux-kernel
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