Alan Wootton
Software Architect at knotfree.net
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlan Wootton is a seasoned software architect with twenty years of experience delivering scalable backend systems, now expanding into full-stack development with React and TypeScript. He is leading KnotFree as a Software Architect, shepherding Kubernetes-based backends, MQTT5 Nano embedded device software, and a mobile PWA front end, all under an open-source IoT vision. His career spans leadership roles at Disney/Playdom, eBay, Continental, Addepar, and Lark Health, where he built NoSQL platforms, HTAP databases, and migrated large workloads to Kubernetes on AWS. An entrepreneur at heart, he founded JotPark/JotScale and Newfire, holds a US patent on distributed caching, and contributed to Acrobat 1.0 at Adobe early in his career. Based in San Jose, CA, he maintains an active GitHub presence (awootton) with knotfree.net and KnotFree-net-homepage, exemplifying open-source impact and cross-stack engineering.
10 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
na, Computer Engineering, na, Computer Engineering at University of Southern Californiana, Chemistry/premed, na, Chemistry/premed at Arizona State UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyBS, Physics, BS, Physics at Occidental College
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Github Skills (68)
arduino-library10
client-library9
python-client9
arduino9
large-data9
live-updates9
data-sets8
pub-sub8
subset8
k8s7
nodejs-library7
blockchain7
golang6
ledger6
cryptocurrency6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
awootton/knotfreeiot
Jul 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:22 releases, 3 reviews, 147 commits in 3 years 5 months
golangtokenssignupmqttruns
awootton/GeneralWorldwideExecutingMessagingSystem
Mar 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:74 commits, 66 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
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