Howard Cochran
Consulting Member Of Technical Staff at Oracle
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolHoward Cochran is a seasoned systems engineer with 11+ years of professional experience and a 30-year career arc that spans embedded Linux kernel maintenance, real-time firmware, and autonomous robotics software; he now designs control software for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure's data centers. He brings deep low-level expertise—from hardware drivers, memory management, and tracing frameworks to filesystems, cgroups, and systemd—paired with advanced work in ROS-based sensor fusion, path planning, and motion control. Recognized as a technical leader at Lexmark and Badger Technologies, he excels at digging into complex systems to diagnose hard faults and architect reliable, performant solutions. Comfortable in C++, C, and Python, he combines hands-on coding with mentorship and cross-disciplinary collaboration to move projects from constrained embedded platforms to cloud-scale operations. An engineer who bridges embedded constraints and cloud-scale orchestration, he thrives on making opaque systems observable and maintainable.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (87)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
BadgerTechnologies/navigation_experimental
Jan 2018 - Sep 2021
Experimental navigation techniques for ROS robots.
Contributions:7 PRs, 4 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 8 months
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howardcochran/hcc-dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Dec 2018
My dot files. zsh, tmux, vim goodness.
Contributions:61 commits, 1 PR, 60 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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