Jim Wilson
Software Engineer at SiFive, Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Wilson is a veteran software engineer and toolchain specialist with 34 years of experience building and maintaining GNU toolchains and compiler toolsets. His career spans influential roles at Cygnus Solutions, Red Hat, Cisco, Linaro, and SiFive where he focused on GCC/Binutils development, embedded toolchains, and low-level systems engineering. Based in California, he brings deep expertise in compiler internals and cross‑platform build systems that few engineers retain after such long, continuous involvement. Jim pairs hands‑on coding with technical leadership, shepherding toolchain reliability for both commercial and open source ecosystems. A longtime GNU contributor since 1987, he combines institutional knowledge of compiler evolution with practical delivery across startups and large vendors.
34 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
English
Github Skills (123)
simulator10
bitbake10
gcc10
yocto10
risc10
vms10
elf10
newlib10
utm10
interrupt10
gdb10
refind10
risc-v10
canopen10
assembly10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
sifive/freedom-u540-c000-bootloader
Sep 2018 - Aug 2021
Freedom U540-C000 Bootloader Code
Contributions:4 PRs, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
bootloaderacpi
riscvarchive/riscv-dejagnu
Nov 2017 - May 2022
DejaGnu RISC-V port
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 7 months
risc-vriscvrisc
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