Paul Nettle
Founder & CTO at Roaring Toad, LLC.
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Nettle is a seasoned founder and technical leader with 35+ years of hands-on engineering experience, currently building human-centric AI and personalization systems as Founder & CTO of Avtar. He brings rare depth from shipping 30+ AAA games and designing massively scalable game platform infrastructure at Gearbox, combined with full-stack embedded-to-cloud product delivery demonstrated by his solo-built IoT device BreakDemon. A pragmatic architect and mentor, Paul blends systems thinking, long-term strategic design, and rigorous engineering discipline to solve hard architectural and organizational problems while growing high-performing teams. He is an active open-source author—his Learn-Swift repo is used to teach Swift at Harvard—and a maker who turns playful inventions (GIANT PONG, Nettle Magic tools) into museum exhibits and commercial products. Based in Plano, Texas, he pairs patented R&D and productization experience with a builder’s curiosity that spans C++, Swift, Go, embedded systems, and cloud infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering at The School of the Self Taught (tm)
Stackoverflow
628reputation
54kreached
13answers
3questions
Github Skills (54)
scanner10
edges10
playgrounds10
bus10
gatt10
bluez10
computer-vision10
bluetooth-low-energy10
decks10
swiftpm9
linux9
swiftui9
dispatch9
swift9
cpp9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nettlep/magic
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Scanner for decks of cards with bar codes printed on card edges
Contributions:4 releases, 31 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
scannermagiccomputer-visionedgesswift
nettlep/gobbledegook
Aug 2017 - Nov 2019
Standalone D-Bus-based BlueZ BLE GATT server for C/C++
Contributions:2 releases, 18 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 3 months
bluezgatt-servercppd-buslinux
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