John Ott
Summary
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SeniorJohn Ott is a founding engineer and entrepreneur with 26 years of experience building embedded systems, firmware, and manufacturing platforms from prototype to production. He co-founded Zelos Cloud to create the first cloud platform for firmware development and testing, and now leads manufacturing automation at Complement. His hands-on background includes building robots, implants, and infrastructure at Neuralink and shipping bootloader drivers and test frameworks at Tesla that are still in use today. John combines low-level firmware expertise with cloud and CI-driven tooling, enabling faster development cycles for hardware teams. He holds a BS in Computer Science and Business from Lehigh University and completed Y Combinator, blending academic rigor with startup grit. A pragmatic tinkerer, he thrives on turning messy hardware problems into repeatable, scalable systems.
26 years of coding experience
Github Skills (87)
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
FRC-3637-Daleks/Turing-Vision
Jan 2000 - Mar 2015
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 15 years 4 months
jbott/jbott.github.io
Aug 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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