John Whaley
Founder at Stanford University
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Whaley is a seasoned software founder and technologist with over two decades of experience building scalable systems and security-focused platforms in the San Francisco Bay Area. He founded UnifyID, Moka5, Inception Studio, and Redcoat AI, guiding technical vision and growth, including UnifyID's acquisition by Prove. His expertise spans operating systems, virtualization, kernel development, security, performance engineering, concurrency, compilers, APIs, networking, and data structures—consistently tackling hard, high-impact problems. He bridges academia and industry as Adjunct Lecturer at Stanford since 2013 and has served as a guest lecturer and project mentor at UC Berkeley, with prior PhD studies at Stanford and research at IBM. A lifelong programmer who started at age five, he continues to blend hands-on coding with entrepreneurship to turn ambitious ideas into practical, widely deployed systems.
25 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science, Ph.D. Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (15)
corebluetooth6
macos4
homebrew4
bluetooth-low-energy4
binary-serialization3
swift3
swift-framework3
serialization3
futures3
cocoapods2
bluetooth2
bluetooth-le2
ios2
deserialization2
carthage1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
joewhaley/bddbddb
Jun 2004 - Aug 2007
Contributions:619 commits, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
joewhaley/javabdd
Jan 2003 - Jun 2007
Contributions:468 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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