Gareth Watts
Co-Founder & CTO at Atolio
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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RockstarGareth Watts is a seasoned software leader and co-founder currently serving as CTO at Atolio, bringing 14 years of experience building secure, scalable cloud services and AI-enabled products. He previously led cloud services at Anki, architecting microservices, gRPC-based fleets and secure device-cloud authentication to support hundreds of thousands of connected robots. Earlier roles at Splunk, SourceForge and other companies show deep hands-on expertise across backend systems, Python and Go, high-volume data pipelines, and distributed teams. An active open-source contributor, he has improved tooling from front-end Hugo themes and jQuery sparklines to a CPU-parallelized iOS passcode recovery tool, demonstrating a knack for both UX details and low-level performance. Based in Nashville, he combines startup founder pragmatism with enterprise-grade engineering practices—CI/CD, containerization and test culture—while retaining a strong appetite for practical diagnostics and usability improvements.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (28)
mermaid10
debug10
filesystem10
file-management10
hugo10
ios10
javascript10
jquery10
sphinx10
css10
go10
internet-explorer10
error-handling10
documentation10
algorithm9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gwatts/pinfinder
Jul 2015 - Mar 2022
Recovers the screen time or restrictions passcode on iOS devices from an iTunes backup (iOS 8-12 only!)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 41 commits, 39 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gareth significantly improved the `pinfinder` tool, which recovers iOS passcode. They refactored the codebase to utilize all available CPU cores for brute-force operations and to automatically detect the iTunes backup directory. Further enhancements included adding command-line flags to control program behavior, improving error messages for clarity, and implementing support for iOS 10 and iOS 12 backup file structures. The user also introduced a diagnostic feature to aid in troubleshooting and enhanced the program's usability.
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gwatts/jquery.sparkline
Apr 2012 - Sep 2013
A plugin for the jQuery javascript library to generate small sparkline charts directly in the browser
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 7 comments, 3 issues in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Gareth primarily focused on improving the jQuery Sparkline library's compatibility and robustness. They addressed multiple bugs related to rendering issues in Internet Explorer, particularly with pie charts and tooltips. Contributions include fixing issues with null values in line charts, bullet charts, and bar charts, ensuring correct display and marker behavior, and improving jQuery 1.9.0 and 1.10 compatibility. The user also addressed CSS and VML rendering issues.
chartsjavascript-libraryjquery-javascriptbrowserjquery
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