James Rodriguez
Embedded Software Engineer at Sighthound, Inc.
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Rodriguez is an embedded software engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience bringing up 32-/64-bit boards, porting BSPs and RTOSes (VxWorks, Linux, QNX and proprietary systems) across MIPS, PowerPC, SPARC and VLIW architectures. He has owned low-level platform software for dozens of WLAN access point and controller designs, written bootloaders and device drivers, and is expert in JTAG debugging and GNU toolchains. James combines legacy RTOS expertise from early telecom and avionics projects with modern embedded Linux/Yocto and container-focused work for NVIDIA Jetson, enabling GPU-aware container runtimes on constrained platforms. Based in Berkeley, he blends deep assembly-level troubleshooting with pragmatic build and CI work, making him equally effective in board bring-up or building reproducible Yocto/Buildroot BSPs. An uncommon strength is his track record of single-handedly taking product platforms from raw silicon to production-ready BSPs across multiple processor families.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (11)
docker10
build-system10
yocto-project10
jetson10
containerization10
dockers10
yocto10
linux9
go9
embedded8
sys8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
OE4T/meta-tegra
Feb 2020 - Feb 2020
BSP layer for NVIDIA Jetson platforms, based on L4T
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 commits, 9 PRs, 78 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:James's contributions center on building and integrating containerization tools and runtimes for NVIDIA hardware, specifically for the NVIDIA Jetson platforms. They added packages for `nvidia-container-toolkit`, `nvidia-docker`, and `nvidia-container-runtime`, indicating a focus on enabling GPU support within containerized environments. The commits demonstrate expertise in building Yocto Project recipes for these components and adapting configurations for the target platform.
bspnvidia-jetson
sighthoundinc/services
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
Sighthound docker-compose service
Contributions:3 releases, 26 reviews, 63 PRs in 8 months
docker-composedockercompose
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