John Messenger
Software Engineer at ADVA Optical Networking North America, Inc.
York, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJohn Messenger is a seasoned software engineer and standards leader with over three decades of hands-on experience in telecommunications, networking, and product management. He has led small technical teams and global standards activities—most notably as Director of Global Standards at ADVA—bridging protocol design, ASIC/FPGA oversight, and embedded software to bring interoperable products to market. Known for deep expertise in network bridging and routing, he combines strategic standardisation influence with a practical focus on customer-driven solutions. A former UK company director and long-time participant in IEEE and ITU-T working groups, he brings rare institutional memory—he once had an account on the first UNIX machine in England—alongside contemporary engineering judgment. Based in York, he pairs technical curiosity with a track record of turning complex standards into deployable product features.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Electronic, Computer and Systems Engineering, 2(i), B.Sc., Electronic, Computer and Systems Engineering, 2(i) at Loughborough UniversityMichael Hall SchoolElmfield School
French, German
Stackoverflow
351reputation
16kreached
13answers
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Github Skills (66)
energy10
temperature10
environmental10
energy-monitor10
sustainability10
yang9
siemens9
php9
ieee9
ethernet9
logging9
mri8
rootfs8
ietf8
docker-container8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jlm/hello2
May 2015 - May 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 1 month
jlm/maint
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
802.1 Maintenance database
Contributions:18 releases, 1 review, 133 commits in 1 year 8 months
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