Jamey Hicks
Founder And Chief Engineer at Accelerated Tech, Inc
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJamey Hicks is a founder and chief engineer with 15+ years leading research and product teams at the intersection of hardware and software, currently making FPGA and SoC development more accessible through improved tools, libraries, and languages. He brings deep systems expertise from kernel and OS work to board- and FPGA-level hardware design, having contributed to kernel.org, WebKit, and Qt and co-founded handhelds.org. His career includes directing Nokia’s open innovation center and co-leading a Nokia–MIT research collaboration, plus industry R&D roles at HP and Quanta where he drove hardware acceleration for big data analytics. A hands-on engineer as well as leader, he has practical experience shipping embedded platforms, integrating open-source components, and improving system performance end-to-end. Less obvious: he also contributes to well-used developer tooling like the python-adb project, adding networked ADB support and streaming shells that bridge low-level protocols to higher-level workflows.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, PhD Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (17)
python10
fastboot10
adb10
networking9
distutils8
debugging7
debug7
fpga6
revert6
documentation6
zynq6
linux6
linux-kernel6
xilinx6
github6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
google/python-adb
Oct 2014 - Oct 2014
Python ADB + Fastboot implementation
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 18 days
Contributions summary:Jamey primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of the Python ADB and Fastboot implementation. They focused on improving code clarity through updated docstrings, correcting data handling in the protocol, and refactoring code to improve maintainability. The user also added support for ADB over TCP, indicating an understanding of network communication and expanding the library's capabilities. Furthermore, they packaged the code for distribution and added a streaming shell functionality.
pythonadbfastboot
cambridgehackers/buildcache
Aug 2014 - May 2022
Contributions:120 commits, 4 PRs, 42 pushes in 7 years 10 months
executionbuild-tool
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