Derald Woods
Manager, Engineering - Systems at Wind River
Atlanta Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerald Woods is an engineering manager and embedded systems leader with 11 years of focused experience designing and shipping embedded Linux and MCU products from prototype to manufacture. He has led and mentored cross-functional teams, defined BSPs and update strategies (A/B), and architected unified build systems used across product lines, most recently managing an 11-person embedded software group that delivered a ground-up trail camera platform to JDM manufacturing. Comfortable both as a hands-on developer (C/C++, Buildroot, U-Boot, kernel drivers) and a technical manager, he brings deep practical knowledge of factory bring-up, ODM/JDM collaboration, and CI/CD for embedded workflows. His background spans medical-device compliance, FPGA SoC integration, and vehicle gateway platforms, reflecting an ability to translate complex hardware constraints into robust, maintainable software. Based in the Atlanta metro area, he pairs a teaching mindset with open-source pragmatism, often guiding teams to adopt cost-effective OSS solutions and long-lived hardware platforms.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering at Tennessee State University
Github Skills (24)
buildroot10
embedded-linux10
linux-kernel10
driver10
u-boot9
lvgl9
microcontroller9
embedded9
toolchain7
generator6
ansi-c5
kernel5
wireless5
xbee4
debugging4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
woodsts/u-boot-xlnx
Sep 2018 - Jul 2026
The official Xilinx u-boot repository
Contributions:214 pushes, 27 branches, 33 tags in 7 years 11 months
u-bootxilinx
WoodsTechnicalSolutions/etinker
Mar 2018 - Jul 2026
Contributions:1139 pushes, 11 branches in 8 years 4 months
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