John Plocher
Principal Engineer at SPCoast.com
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Plocher is a Principal Engineer with 22 years of systems and storage expertise, currently shaping distributed and embedded systems at Ford Model e's Greenfield Labs from San Jose. He brings deep hands-on experience across firmware, drivers, network protocols, clusters, cloud storage and build systems, having led distributed systems architecture at Apple and storage architecture at Seagate/EVault. A pragmatic open-source-minded engineer, he blends low-level C/C++/embedded work (PIC/AVR board design) with higher-level services and process governance. His career spans startups and large-scale enterprise R&D—co-founding Bigbook.com and driving engineering at Sun Microsystems—so he excels at translating research-grade ideas into production-ready systems. Notably, he pairs Six Sigma process discipline with a maker’s mentality, still running his own embedded hardware projects through SPCoast.
22 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
University of Wisconsin-MadisonSun Microsystems Six Sigma Green BeltASEE, ASEE at Wisconsin School of ElectronicsCertified Mentor, Certified Mentor at Mentoring Standard
Github Skills (70)
photon10
arduino-library10
argon10
railway10
arduino-ide10
java10
particle10
ide10
arduino10
obs9
streamdeck9
ndi9
artnet9
api8
rest8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
plocher/I2Cexpander
May 2015 - Feb 2020
Contributions:48 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
plocher/ArduinoPoint
Mar 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 tag in 7 years 1 month
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