Joe Alderson
Director, Developer Platform Strategy
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Alderson is a director-level product leader specializing in developer platforms, embedded tools and UX for Arm’s IoT and embedded ecosystems, with a decade of experience scaling tools from web IDEs to device management platforms. He has driven major product initiatives—growing Mbed’s userbase from ~100k to >500k, launching Keil VS Code extensions to 100k+ installs in a year, and introducing subscription commerce for Keil MDK—while leading mixed-methods UX research and design. Comfortable at the intersection of strategy, engineering and design, he has shipped browser-based tooling, SDKs and cloud UIs that operate at millions-of-devices scale. Before Arm he helped bring platforms like the original Raspberry Pi to market, and outside work he channels creativity as a singer-guitarist and illustrator, a combination that informs his pragmatic, user-centered approach to developer experience.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MEng (hons) Dunelm Electronic and Communications Engineering, MEng (hons) Dunelm Electronic and Communications Engineering at Durham University
Github Skills (18)
mbed10
frontend8
operating-system8
firmware6
arm5
cortex-m5
mcu5
jlink5
stlink4
microcontroller4
python4
embedded4
vscode3
debugging3
internet-of-things2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
JoeTheGuitarist/documentation_docs
Apr 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:3 pushes in 2 months
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