Martyn Jago
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Tended LTD
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarMartyn Jago is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer based in England with 17 years of hands-on experience delivering reliable firmware and low-level systems. He currently applies his expertise at Tended LTD, focusing on embedded solutions that bridge hardware constraints with robust software design. An active contributor to the ruby/spec project, Martyn has tackled tricky encoding and UTF-8 compatibility issues in core libraries like Zlib and Digest, demonstrating a careful attention to interoperability and test-suite reliability. His background shows a blend of practical embedded engineering and thoughtful open-source collaboration, able to refactor legacy tests and code to meet modern binary and encoding expectations. Colleagues value him for solving obscure, hard-to-reproduce bugs at the intersection of character sets and binary data—an often overlooked but critical area in embedded systems.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
test-suite10
zlib10
utf10
rubyspec10
encoding10
ruby10
spec8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ruby/spec
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
The Ruby Spec Suite aka ruby/spec
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits, 53 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Martyn primarily contributed to the Ruby spec suite, addressing issues related to encoding, character sets, and UTF-8 compatibility. They modified existing tests to resolve encoding conflicts, particularly within the Zlib and Digest libraries. The user's work involved refactoring code and modifying strings to ensure tests function correctly within the specified binary format, leading to improved test suite reliability.
ruby-gemmspecrailsrubyspec
mjago/In_Our_Time
Sep 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:66 pushes, 3 branches, 16 tags in 3 years 9 months
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