Iain Woolf
Senior Software Designer, 7750 7950 Service Router at Nokia
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolIain Woolf is a seasoned senior software designer and architect with over two decades of real-time embedded systems experience, currently shaping Nokia’s 7750/7950 service router product line from Ottawa. He blends hands-on C/C++ and systems expertise across Unix, Linux and VxWorks with modern practices in NFV, build systems and Agile delivery, and has repeatedly served as both technical lead and scrum master. Known for clear communication and rapid adaptability, he also operated as a product owner, bridging engineering and stakeholder needs. Beyond telecoms, he contributes to the Go project’s testing and build infrastructure, showing an active interest in improving developer tooling and testability in widely used open-source software.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science/Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science/Software Engineering at The University of BirminghamStockport School
English
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Github Skills (12)
filesystem10
go10
file-operations10
fileio10
testing10
error-handling9
lang8
programming-language8
golang8
gcc6
cross-compiling6
vxworks6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
golang/go
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
The Go programming language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 29 comments, 3 issues in 3 months
Contributions summary:Iain primarily contributed to the Go programming language repository, focusing on improving the testing infrastructure and build processes. The user's commits demonstrate modifications to existing test files and the integration of modern testing practices, such as the use of `T.TempDir` and `T.Cleanup`. These changes involve file system operations, and error handling, contributing to improved code quality and testability. Additionally, the user replaced deprecated functions, such as os.MkdirTemp, with the T.TempDir function, showing an understanding of the evolving Go testing ecosystem.
golanggopluscompilerprogramming-languageinterpreter
lodastack/registry
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
Contributions:2 reviews, 152 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 5 months
golangmonitordatabasesdistributed-systemsraft
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