John Ellis
President USA & Head Of Product at Codethink
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Ellis is a transportation technology executive and engineer with 25+ years bridging software, hardware, and public-sector strategy to shape how cities, airports, and agencies manage streets, curbs, and emerging mobility modes. As President USA & Head of Product at Codethink and former Global Technologist at Ford, he led early connected-vehicle programs and launched developer ecosystems that integrated mobile, in-vehicle, and IoT services. He founded Ellis & Associates to help governments and private partners translate complex mobility tech into policy-aligned operations, authoring LADOT’s Strategic Implementation Plan for curb and micro-mobility management. His background spans hands-on software and ML integration for robotics and IoT up to C-suite product strategy, giving him rare fluency across code, systems, and procurement. Fluent in Spanish and experienced in international deployments from Beijing to Cork, he leverages a vast network to form pragmatic public–private partnerships. Known for turning technical innovation into actionable city solutions, he combines academic rigor (MS CS, MBA) with deep field experience.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyMBA, MBA at University of Notre DameBS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at Valparaiso University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
automotive9
rover7
robotics4
solidworks4
visual-studio4
pair-programming3
javascript3
socket-io3
visual-studio-code3
react3
nodejs3
collaboration2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
John-Ellis/prakprob
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
SovereignAI/realsense
Apr 2019 - Apr 2019
Intel(R) RealSense(TM) ROS Wrapper for D400 series and SR300 Camera
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 18 days
ros2cameraintelrosrealsense
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