Summary
Josaphat Valdivia is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in low-resource, bare-metal systems and modern C/C++ development. An RIT computer engineering alum and embedded systems veteran, he has co-founded hardware-focused startups and led firmware architecture for biometric wallets and wearable devices. At companies like Glowforge and Token he improved build systems and CI tooling, unifying multi-target builds with CMake and introducing clang-based quality tooling. Comfortable across languages from assembler to Rust, he blends strong object-oriented design with practical hands-on firmware expertise. Based in Rochester, NY, he maintains a personal project presence on git.sr.ht, reflecting a long-term commitment to tinkering and clean, maintainable embedded software.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology
Segerstrom
English, Spanish