Terry Simons
Senior Staff, Tools & Automation Engineer
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolTerry Simons is a seasoned Senior Staff Tools & Automation Engineer with 16+ years building large-scale test and build infrastructure for device and network-centric products across Apple, Google, Humane, and Nest. He blends deep expertise in wireless security (802.1X/RADIUS), embedded systems, virtualization (QEMU/KVM in Docker/VMware), and CI/CD to deliver reliable firmware and device test automation at scale. Known for creating device-centric frameworks like Jarvis and restoring critical repos by hand, he pairs hands-on engineering with pragmatic leadership—managing teams, complex HIL pipelines, and multi-vendor deployments. An open source advocate and long-time Python hacker, he co-authored a campus wireless whitepaper and led projects like Open1x/OpenLLDP, bringing uncommon cross-domain fluency from low-level supplicant code to factory automation. Based in San Jose, he’s a constant tinkerer who applies hobbyist curiosity (3D printing, IoT) to drive production-grade tooling and novel test strategies.
16 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
English, Japanese, Irish
Stackoverflow
51reputation
5kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (47)
code-readability10
scene-manager10
pygame10
event-handling9
testrail9
sprite8
blocker7
tab-completion7
python7
build-environment6
shell6
raspberry-pi6
linker6
apex6
multithreading6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
terrysimons/spine-python
Feb 2013 - Apr 2013
A Pure Python implementation of the Esoteric Software Spine runtime for pygame.
Contributions:62 commits in 1 month
pygamepython
terrysimons/mos6502
Sep 2022 - Dec 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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