Garth Hitchens
Founder, CTO at Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services
Edmonds, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGarth Hitchens is a seasoned technology founder and CTO with over three decades of experience crafting product strategy, leading engineering teams, and shipping market-winning hardware and software solutions. He founded GRID22 to focus on SaaS, IoT, community and collaboration technologies, and previously ran technology and product at Rose Point Navigation Systems. Comfortable across embedded Linux, collaboration services, and full-stack reactive mobile and web architectures, he blends deep systems-level engineering with strategic standards work. He chairs RTCM Special Committee 109, whose recent standard he helped deliver is now referenced by the US Coast Guard for electronic charting equivalence. Known for navigating both startup and large-company dynamics—from Electronic Arts and Microsoft to his own ventures—he pairs hands-on technical leadership with a knack for turning complex domain standards into deployable product advantage. Based in Edmonds, WA, he brings rare cross-discipline fluency in hardware, embedded systems, and cloud-native collaboration platforms.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
University of Washington
Github Skills (78)
lfe9
traceroute9
ethernet9
ssdp9
embedded8
multicast8
embedded-software8
elixir8
text-editor8
networked7
sctp7
hugo7
firmware7
spacemacs7
vim7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ghitchens/nerves_ssdp_server
Nov 2015 - Feb 2017
Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) Server
Contributions:1 release, 20 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 3 months
service-discovery-protocolssdparqdiscoveryservice-discovery
ghitchens/nerves_firmware_http
Jun 2016 - Nov 2019
HTTP/REST micro service providing over-the-network firmware management
Contributions:4 releases, 19 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 4 months
micro-servicefirmware-managementfirmwarerest
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