Summary
L Teeple is a seasoned software engineer with nine years of recent hands-on experience and decades of broader technical leadership across embedded systems, robotics, and AI. He has led product and engineering teams from startups to enterprise—founding Bitfone and later running Plum Hall Inc—while designing real-time control software for telescopes and undersea autonomous vehicles. His deep C/C++ expertise spans embedded autopilots, synthetic aperture sonar integration, and real-time Linux imaging pipelines, reflecting a practical blend of research-grade astronomy software and rugged robotics systems. Based in Kawaihae, Hawaii, he pairs academic foundations from Waterloo and UBC with rare domain breadth, from compiler testing to building multi-language development environments. Notably, his work includes open-source astronomy pipelines and applied machine-learning for autonomy, showing a pattern of turning complex sensing problems into operational systems.
8 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
MASc, Computer Science, MASc, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Systems Design, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Systems Design at University of Waterloo