Paul Nettle
Founder & CTO at Roaring Toad, LLC.
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Nettle is a seasoned founder and technical leader with 35+ years of hands-on engineering experience, currently building human-centric AI and personalization systems as Founder & CTO of Avtar. He brings rare depth from shipping 30+ AAA games and designing massively scalable game platform infrastructure at Gearbox, combined with full-stack embedded-to-cloud product delivery demonstrated by his solo-built IoT device BreakDemon. A pragmatic architect and mentor, Paul blends systems thinking, long-term strategic design, and rigorous engineering discipline to solve hard architectural and organizational problems while growing high-performing teams. He is an active open-source author—his Learn-Swift repo is used to teach Swift at Harvard—and a maker who turns playful inventions (GIANT PONG, Nettle Magic tools) into museum exhibits and commercial products. Based in Plano, Texas, he pairs patented R&D and productization experience with a builder’s curiosity that spans C++, Swift, Go, embedded systems, and cloud infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering at The School of the Self Taught (tm)
Stackoverflow
628reputation
54kreached
13answers
3questions
Github Skills (35)
barcodes10
bar-code10
dbus10
gatt10
bluez10
computer-vision10
swift10
bluetooth-low-energy10
cpp9
multicore8
programming-language8
hardware7
grand-central-dispatch7
macos6
mouse6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nettlep/magic
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Scanner for decks of cards with bar codes printed on card edges
Contributions:4 releases, 31 commits, 6 PRs in 2 months
bar-codebarcodescomputer-visionmagicswift
nettlep/learn-swift
Jun 2014 - Jan 2015
Learn Apple's Swift programming language interactively through these playgrounds.
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 months
programming-languageswift
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