Ross Porter
Sales Engineer at balena
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRoss Porter is a seasoned technology leader and sales engineer with 10+ years of experience building and scaling startups, having served as CTO, COO, senior product/project manager and software engineer across multiple acquisitions and a company that grew to 400 employees. Based in Seattle, he pairs a Master’s in Software Engineering and a Data Science certificate with hands-on experience in Python, real-time systems and machine learning course development. Ross has led product strategy, investor relations and engineering teams, launched multimillion-dollar real estate investment funds, and created an award-winning open-source Raspberry Pi project for dementia-friendly music playback. He thrives at the intersection of product, operations and engineering—translating technical capability into repeatable business growth—and has a track record of turning niche technical focus into acquisition-worthy companies.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Data Science, Certificate, Data Science at University of WashingtonMaster of Science - MS, Software Engineering, 4.0, Master of Science - MS, Software Engineering, 4.0 at Seattle UniversityBSc, Major: Psychology, Minor: Computer Science, Honours First Class, BSc, Major: Psychology, Minor: Computer Science, Honours First Class at McGill University
Github Skills (28)
docker10
balena10
resin9
yocto9
documentation9
owncloud9
music9
player9
embedded8
javascript7
raspberry6
wifi5
raspberry-pi-zero5
raspbian5
sd-card5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rosswesleyporter/dqmusicbox
Aug 2015 - Mar 2022
The Dementia Friendly Music Player (DQMusicBox) is a music player designed for people with dementia.
Contributions:3 releases, 192 commits, 1 PR in 6 years 8 months
javascriptmusicdementiamusic-playerplayer
rosswesleyporter/test
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:10 PRs, 10 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 8 months
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