Jim Trudeau
Storyteller at Self-employed
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorJim Trudeau is a storyteller and seasoned technology professional with eight years formally listed in recent roles and a long career bridging developer relations, technical marketing, and documentation. Based in Austin, he has led global developer outreach and customer engineering programs at companies like AMD, Freescale, and Cypress, turning complex hardware-software problems into usable solutions and revenue-generating services. Comfortable both managing teams and doing hands-on technical writing, he has a track record of creating training programs, technical publications, and developer ecosystems that scale. Now self-employed, he’s channeling that discipline into a multi-generational historical fiction saga set during the French Wars of Religion, blending rigorous research with narrative craft. His unusual career arc—moving from semiconductor developer advocacy to full-time novelist—gives him a rare combination of technical clarity and storytelling instinct. Open to literary-agent conversations, he brings a product-minded approach to long-form fiction.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
French
Github Skills (45)
psoc10
bluetooth8
driver7
firmware7
arm7
command-line-tool7
frontend7
java6
header-files5
uart4
mbed4
spi4
wifi3
stm3
cypress3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Infineon/Code-Examples-BT-20819A1-1.0-for-ModusToolbox
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 7 pushes in 4 months
Infineon/Code-Examples-for-ModusToolbox-Software
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
This ReadMe links to all available code examples for ModusToolbox software.
Contributions:28 commits, 16 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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