Jen Chitty
Principal Firmware Developer at Grassroots Autonomous Systems Inc.
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJen Chitty is a Principal Firmware Developer and seasoned systems engineer with over two decades of experience designing and shipping embedded and IoT systems across startups and global enterprises. She blends hands-on C and Linux/RTOS development with system and cybersecurity architecture, API and protocol design, and pragmatic product leadership, having led teams at Sierra Wireless, Schneider Electric, Generac, and others. Known for rooting out core pain points, she drives cross-team coordination, CI/CD and Git-based QA practices, and secure device-to-cloud solutions while mentoring engineers and improving team dynamics. Jen founded and scaled the Legato open-source framework and has a track record of turning experimental hardware into production products and delightful user experiences. Based in Surrey, BC, she balances technical depth with empathy, championing diversity, openness, and reproducible development processes that make complex distributed systems reliable and maintainable.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (22)
legato9
espressif9
sensor9
doxygen8
esp328
git-repository8
compile8
battery-level7
iot7
php7
esp-idf7
battery6
application-framework6
swig5
api5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
legatoproject/legato-Service-DataHub
Feb 2018 - Dec 2020
Data Hub application and related APIs and components intended for contribution to the Legato and mangOH Projects.
Contributions:64 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 2 years 10 months
data-hublegato
mangOH/BatteryService
Apr 2018 - Aug 2019
API provides ability to monitor battery level and create alarms
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 4 months
apimonitorbatteryabilitybattery-level
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