Jonathan Cross
Senior Firmware Engineer at Nextbase
Greater Swansea Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Cross is a Senior Firmware Engineer with over two decades of experience building embedded software and support systems for consumer electronics, particularly in Digital TV and connected IoT devices. He combines deep low-level expertise in Linux/FreeBSD, C/C++, toolchains and drivers with modern application skills in Python, Node.js, QT/QML and cloud-connected services like MQTT and Kinesis Video Streams. At Nextbase he leads firmware work for LTE-modem and video-streaming integrations in connected dashcams, and previously owned Freeview Play integrations and build infrastructure at Panasonic for a decade. He is resourceful and pragmatic, routinely containerizing legacy toolchains and automating test and release workflows to keep long-lived products maintainable. Comfortable across hardware, OS and application stacks, he excels at bridging product requirements and deployable engineering solutions. Based in the Swansea area, he balances legacy system stewardship with a continuous appetite for adopting new technologies.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng. (Hons), Electronic and computer engineering, B.Eng. (Hons), Electronic and computer engineering at The University of BoltonB.Tec. First Diploma, Electronic engineering, B.Tec. First Diploma, Electronic engineering at Coleg Glan HafrenLlanishen High School
Github Skills (3)
framebuffer4
lcd4
linux2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cooljc/rpi-eve
Dec 2012 - Feb 2013
Contributions:35 commits in 1 month
cooljc/rpi-buildroot
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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