Timothe Litt
Chief Technologist at Litt Networks
Southborough, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTimothe Litt is a seasoned technologist with over 21 years of experience designing and validating complex hardware and software platforms, currently serving as Chief Technologist at Litt Networks. His career spans real-time and embedded systems, platform architecture and reset/initialization, OS and systems debugging, and accessibility-focused assistive technology developed during long tenures at Digital, Compaq/HP, and Intel. An active open-source contributor and founder/steering member of OpenSIMH, he combines deep low-level debugging skills with practical DevOps work—recently improving CI, Docker-based testing, and release automation for the popular getssl/letsencrypt tooling. He also operates multi-site wide-area networks, influences public technology policy through municipal bylaws and ICANN participation, and mentors engineers across disciplines. Known for cross-disciplinary problem solving, he brings both hands-on implementation and program-level consensus-building to long-lived, mission-critical systems.
21 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at Brandeis University
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Github Skills (24)
simulation10
github-ci10
docker10
simulate10
simulator10
simulations10
c-programming10
dockers10
cicd10
githubaction-workflow10
emulation10
bash9
file-handling8
acme8
debug8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
srvrco/getssl
May 2017 - Sep 2021
obtain free SSL certificates from letsencrypt ACME server Suitable for automating the process on remote servers.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 44 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Timothe primarily focused on improving the testing and deployment infrastructure for the `getssl` repository. Their contributions include setting up a CI environment using GitHub Actions and Docker. They also made modifications to the testing framework, allowing for dynamic DNS testing using GitHub secrets, and implemented enhancements to the upgrade process by integrating with GitHub releases and full installation of the new versions.
free-ssl-certificatesremotesshacme-servergetssl
simh/simh
May 2013 - Jan 2018
The Computer History Simulation Project
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 4 comments, 1 issue in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Timothe primarily focused on emulating and improving the functionality of the PDP-10 architecture, a project in computer history simulation. Their contributions involved fixing bugs and implementing features within the LP20 line printer, addressing file overwriting issues, and adding the ability to set the CPU serial number in the KS cpu. They also reverted a change, and then re-implemented an improved serial number setting.
simulatorcomputer-historysimulation
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