James Woodyatt
Between Jobs at Self-Employed
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJames Woodyatt is an experienced embedded and systems software engineer with 25+ years building high-integrity networking and distributed middleware for products ranging from spacecraft and military drones to consumer devices and autonomous vehicles. He combines deep mastery of C/C++ and systems languages with practical leadership—having led core PCU middleware and orchestration teams at Zoox and served as Apple's IPv6 engineering lead during critical industry transitions. James has repeatedly influenced standards and implementations (IETF/6LoWPAN, Thread, IPv6) and holds patents related to networking and gateway functions. He excels at troubleshooting opaque, log-driven failures and using LLM-assisted tooling to improve design, tests, and requirements. Based in San Francisco, he brings a rare blend of low-level protocol expertise, architectural judgment, and hands-on delivery across safety-critical and consumer-facing systems.
11 years of coding experience
38 years of employment as a software developer
Newport Harbor High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Marine Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Marine Engineering Technology at California Maritime Academy
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (75)
handlers10
embedded10
ppx10
opam10
wireless10
multicore10
package-repository10
dune10
idris10
gleam10
compiler10
nest10
ocaml10
simultaneous10
google10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jhwoodyatt/omake
Dec 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 10 months
mailing-listmailing
jhwoodyatt/opam-repository
May 2016 - Apr 2023
Main public package repository for OPAM, the source package manager of OCaml.
Contributions:3 PRs, 46 pushes, 32 branches in 7 years
package-managerpackage-repositoryocamlopam
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