John Patterson
Senior Architect at Windward Consulting
Wales, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Patterson is a Senior Architect with two decades of enterprise IT experience, currently leading architecture, OSS, automation and security efforts from his role at Windward Consulting. He has deep operational roots across networking, systems administration, disaster recovery and compliance (FIPS/FISMA), and has driven enterprise-wide technical and policy decisions that balance elegant design with practical process. His hands-on background includes high-stakes carrier and service-provider operations (BGP, IS-IS, DNS) and senior UNIX/network leadership in mixed Windows, Linux and Solaris environments. An active maker and embedded systems contributor, he has added ESP32S2 board support to the popular CircuitPython project and recently designed a PCB now being commercialized. Based in Wales but operating across the U.S. market, he combines practical engineering, ITIL process engineering and a long history of teaching and public outreach through InetDaemon.com.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Batchellors, Computer Internetworking Technologies, Batchellors, Computer Internetworking Technologies at Strayer UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Old Dominion University
Github Skills (14)
esp3210
adafruit-circuit-python10
embedded10
configurations10
system-configuration10
microcontroller10
py10
python10
system-integration10
integrations10
s210
hardware-interface10
c119
c179
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
adafruit/circuitpython
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 4 comments, 2 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:John focused on adding support for new hardware board variants (Wroom and Wrover) to the CircuitPython project. This involved creating and modifying board-specific configuration files, including pin definitions and board initialization code. The user's contributions primarily centered around adapting CircuitPython to function correctly on different ESP32S2-based microcontroller boards, ensuring proper pin assignments and board functionality.
pythonpython-implementationteachingmicrocontrollerpython3
Targett363/S2_Module_Clip_Board
Oct 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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