Judge Maygarden is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of deep, hands-on experience building embedded systems, real-time simulations, and distributed IoT platforms. He has led engineering teams from early-stage startups to regulated medical and avionics products, driving firmware to cloud integrations and achieving tangible wins like extended battery life and ISO-13485 implementation. Equally comfortable as an individual contributor and technical manager, he architects systems in C, Rust, Python and JavaScript and has shipped OTA-capable, CAN/USB/TCP-IP connected devices. As founder of ByteFoo he consults on real-time and embedded challenges, and his background in motor control, custom RTOS design, and avionics shows a rare combination of low-level optimization and system-level product delivery. Based in Gulf Breeze, Florida, he blends practical manufacturing and testing experience with distributed software design to move complex hardware-software products from concept to production.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at University of Alabama
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at University of West Florida
Serial Line Interface Protocol (SLIP) encoder/decoder with Rust std::io::{Read, Write} interfaces.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 15 commits in 2 years 7 months
stdread-writeserialrustdecoder
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Judge Maygarden - Staff Software Engineer at ByteFoo, LLC