James Woodyatt

I'm an experienced software engineer with proven design and architectural skill, a strong background distributed processing, data telecommunication, network security, trouble diagnosis and software practice, and Internet standards development. I started my career as a young child, writing my first program in Data General Business BASIC at age 11. I've maintained mastery of C and C++ since before the first ANSI standards were published through to the present draft standards. I've also mastered several other systems programming languages, for example Perl, Java and OCaml. I have full working facility in Python, and over a dozen others.

At Zoox, I am senior Core Software engineer, working on safety critical logic in the vehicle Principle Compute Unit (PCU) systems, and until recently I was managing a team of five engineers that creates software for controlling and monitoring the progress of software processes on the PCU host systems, and the communication of messages over the internal vehicle networks that connect these systems.

At Nest, I had the role of a sustaining engineer for various software components in the data communications foundation of the Nest ecosystem, including the lightweight IP stack, and the Weave SDK. I have contributed architectural guidance in standards development related to IPv6 and 6LoWPAN to the Thread Group. I have served as the secretary of the IETF working group for 6LoWPAN.

At Apple, I was the leading IPv6 engineering expert for six years. My attention to technical detail and coordination with my industry counterparts was critical in the successful and timely readiness of OS X, iOS and other embedded products for World IPv6 Launch.

I have over twenty-five years of embedded software development experience, in products ranging from military drone aircraft, home appliances, commercial spacecraft, personal mobile devices, game consoles, et cetera. I'm comfortable troubleshooting bespoke software with only access to cryptic and incomplete log message streams.