John Terrell
Principal Software Architect at AlphaPixel
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Terrell is a Principal Software Architect based in Kirkland, WA with a 25+ year track record building web, media, embedded, and graphics systems across startups and major enterprises. He led architecture and delivery at AlphaPixel and founded CamanoLight, where he designed the firmware and low-footprint embedded HTTP/REST stack for the marine IoT product iKommunicate. At Microsoft he shipped UI, media-sharing, and browser features—earning patents for touch navigation—and earlier work includes high-performance 3D rendering systems at Metacreations. Comfortable spanning firmware to complex user-facing software, he blends product-focused engineering with hands-on implementation and cross-team collaboration. Notably, he has deep experience optimizing constrained embedded systems and translating legacy marine and vehicle sensor protocols into modern, cloud-friendly interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Northern Colorado
Github Skills (116)
windows10
cmake10
openscenegraph10
terraform10
visual-studio10
arm10
stlink10
cpp10
linux10
graph10
vcpkg10
macos10
jlink10
openstreetmap9
opengl9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
gwaldron/osg
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
OpenSceneGraph git mirror
Contributions:120 commits in 1 year
git-mirroropenscenegraph
CoolpeopleNetworks/asf
Nov 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:375 commits, 1 PR, 332 pushes in 2 months
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