John Taylor
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Covington, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Taylor is a senior embedded software leader with 11+ years of hands-on and managerial experience designing firmware and architectures for medical devices, IoT wearables, industrial controls, and now GPU OOB firmware at AMD. He combines deep C/C++ design and OO analysis skills with a track record of building CI-friendly firmware ecosystems, functional simulators, and test automation that enabled rapid delivery of complex regulated products. John has repeatedly defined SDLC, CI pipelines, and build tooling while leading distributed teams and translating product requirements into auditable technical solutions for FDA-class and safety-critical systems. Equally comfortable as a technical lead or people manager, he has shipped large codebases (including a 230 KLOC wearable firmware in under a year) and decoupled architectures that ease hardware and OS portability. Based in Covington, GA, he brings a pragmatic blend of systems thinking, fast learning, and a penchant for formal design approaches (UML, design patterns, Schlaer‑Mellor) that yield maintainable, testable embedded software.
11 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Green Mountain High SchoolBachelor of Science Degree Computer Science; Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Degree Computer Science; Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Texas at Tyler
English
Github Skills (20)
hardware-designs10
software-design10
electrical-engineering10
stem10
cpp10
class-library10
embedded9
microcontroller7
arduino-library7
arduino6
esp325
podcast5
esp82665
json5
middleware4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
johnttaylor/colony.apps
Aug 2015 - Apr 2023
Example Applications, Applets, etc. built on top of the Colony.* Packages
Contributions:22 PRs, 183 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 9 months
appletscolonyon-top
johnttaylor/epc
Jun 2023 - Sep 2025
Source code for the book: The Embedded Project Cookbook: A Step-By-Step Guide for Microcontroller Projects
Contributions:1 review, 177 PRs, 434 pushes in 2 years 3 months
microcontroller
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