John Ankcorn
Engineer at The Connectal Project
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Ankcorn is an experienced engineer with 13+ years currently leading system design and delivery at The Connectal Project from Palo Alto, bringing decades of platform and embedded software expertise across Nokia Research, HP Labs, and startups. He has a strong track record of translating customer needs into elegant, maintainable architectures—most notably pioneering integration of Linux into high-volume Nokia feature phones and running legacy modem/UI code alongside modern application frameworks. Comfortable at the intersection of research and productization, he has repeatedly moved innovations from lab demos to production releases and shaped teams to do more with less. His background spans compiler and protocol development, real-time systems, and multimedia streaming, reflecting deep fundamentals that enable flexible, long-lived solutions. Beyond engineering, he has built companies and led hiring and technical strategy, helping displaced teams find new roles when projects pivoted. A mathematician-trained problem solver, he combines systems-level thinking with a pragmatic focus on iteration and team-enabled delivery.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at MITJapan Studies Program, Japan Studies Program at Imperial College LondonMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Portland State University
Japanese
Github Skills (49)
verilog10
systemverilog10
vlsi10
language-service10
bluespec10
hardware10
eda10
zynq10
grammars10
slang10
parse10
hdl10
fpga10
uvm9
xilinx9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cambridgehackers/clang
Nov 2015 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 334 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 1 month
git-repositorycppclangupdatedminutes
cambridgehackers/klaatu-gfx-examples
Oct 2012 - Nov 2012
Contributions:11 commits, 1 branch in 5 days
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