Jason Ernst
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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SeniorJason Ernst is a Principal Software Engineer and distributed-systems architect with 12 years of experience building high-performance, test-driven networking and robotics software from research prototypes to shipped products. Based in Redwood City, he has led technical teams and startups—co-founding mesh- and swarm-robotics ventures, serving as CTO of RightMesh, and driving mobile mesh network engineering at bump—where he translated technical vision into funding, hires, and market launches. His hands-on work spans C++, Kotlin, Python, low-level Linux networking, userspace TCP/UDP stacks, and on-device CI that boosted code coverage from 0 to 80%, along with robotics motion stacks and simulation tooling used for deployment planning. He combines academic rigor (PhD research and adjunct professorship in heterogeneous wireless networks) with product-focused delivery, routinely interfacing with execs, investors, legal and marketing to ship complex systems. Notably, he reduced camera image acquisition latency from seconds to milliseconds and built tooling to synthesize training data for ML, showing a knack for squeezing real-world performance gains out of hardware-constrained systems.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (3)
simulate6
traffic5
simulation5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
redtreerobotics/redtree-lib
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
redtreerobotics/redtree-lib-headers
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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