Paul Chambers
Engineering at Open Source
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorPaul Chambers is a Principal Architect and technologist with four decades of experience designing and delivering consumer products across hardware, embedded software, cloud services and UX. He has led engineering and architecture teams at companies from Apple and Nokia to iRobot and NETGEAR, and founded Nymble Technology to consult on connected devices, media streaming and IoT. A generalist who has acted as CTO, director and hands-on engineer, he combines product definition and IP generation with practical prototyping—from Altium schematics to embedded Linux middleware and secure OTA systems. He maintains a steady open-source presence, contributing firewall integration and nftables support to the widely used miniupnp project while balancing upstream collaboration with proprietary IP. Based in San Jose, he is comfortable bridging silicon vendors, overseas manufacturing and cloud/mobile teams to ship global products. Less obvious: he repeatedly moves projects from prototype to production, often being tapped to rescue or re-architect troubled systems.
12 years of coding experience
36 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
c1710
nftables10
firewall10
c-programming10
c1110
networking10
iptables10
linux9
makefile7
automations7
automation7
embedded6
fpga6
assembly6
microcontroller6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
miniupnp/miniupnp
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
UPnP IGD implementation
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 13 PRs, 58 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul's commits primarily focus on enhancing the miniupnpd project's interaction with the nftables firewall. They implemented scripts and configurations for creating and removing nftables rules, improving integration with other firewall tools. Furthermore, the user added functionality to distinguish between iptables and nftables during configuration generation and reworked code to use nftables specific operations. Finally, they made changes to improve the program's compatibility with different firewall setups and improved the project's build process.
igdnftablesnetworkingupnppcp
nzbget-ng/nzbget
Jun 2022 - Mar 2023
Efficient Usenet Downloader
Contributions:50 commits, 16 PRs, 46 pushes in 8 months
downloadernzbgetusenetusenet-downloader
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