Colton Willey
Software Engineer at wolfSSL
Greater Sacramento United States
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Top SchoolColton Willey is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building secure, embedded and application-level systems across startups and established vendors. Based in Greater Sacramento, he has contributed engineering work at Mocana Corporation for nearly seven years, continues software development at Engage Communication, and recently joined wolfSSL where security-focused networking and cryptography are central. His background in computer science from UC Santa Cruz and Cabrillo College underpins a practical approach to systems engineering, firmware integration, and secure communications stacks. Colton’s career shows a steady thread of working at the intersection of embedded platforms and network security, often translating low-level constraints into robust, production-ready code. Peers describe him as a pragmatic engineer who prefers solving tricky interoperability and hardening problems over chasing the latest buzzwords.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzComputer Science, Computer Science at Cabrillo College
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Github Skills (80)
signature-verification10
security10
secure-element10
bluetooth10
embedded10
encryption10
sniffer10
hostapd10
x50910
fips10
openssl-engine10
freertos10
iot10
freeradius10
wolfssl10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ColtonWilley/wolfssl
Apr 2024 - Jul 2026
The wolfSSL library is a small, fast, portable implementation of TLS/SSL for embedded devices to the cloud. wolfSSL supports up to TLS 1.3!
Contributions:1 PR, 124 pushes, 38 branches in 2 years 2 months
ColtonWilley/wolfProvider
Dec 2024 - Jul 2026
wolfCrypt and wolfCrypt FIPS provider for OpenSSL
Contributions:8 PRs, 154 pushes, 67 branches in 1 year 7 months
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