Giddeon Garber                                          giddeon.garber@gmail.com

SUMMARY
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Accomplished software developer with a wide variety of skills. More than ten
years of professional experience in embedded software development, internal
tools design, DevOps, QA, web development and web design. Highly knowledgeable
about software design, real-time programming, user interfaces and several
programming languages. Familiar with many OS and CPU architectures. Excellent
technical and communication skills. Goal-oriented with a focus on sustainable
software architectures. Startup specialist capable of quickly reacting to
changing requirements.  Always looking for a new intellectual challenge.

EXPERIENCE
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Broadcom Ltd, Petaluma CA                            Principal Software Engineer
February 2016 - Present                               Firmware Design, Tools, CI
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- Continuing position from Broadcom Corp, specialized in embedded software
  design for EPON, GPON and XGPON optical networks while continuing to
  maintain and update an extensive internal tools infrastructure.

Broadcom Corp, Petaluma CA                              Senior Software Engineer
March 2010 - February 2016                            Firmware Design, Tools, CI
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- Specialized in embedded software design for EPON, GPON and XGPON optical
  networking.
- Designed a C software API for the first combined EPON / GPON / XGPON OLT
  device.
- Built and maintained an XML-based code generation infrastructure in C# capable
  of generating C code, C# code and documentation.
- Successfully integrated software teams in California, Israel and China with
  very different design methodologies.
- Maintained and updated a C# codebase with millions of lines of code almost
  single-handedly.
- Consistently ranked one of the very best software engineers amongst a team of
  20-30.

Teknovus, Petaluma CA                                     June 2005 - March 2010
Software Engineer                                             Internal Tools, CI
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- Created user interfaces in C# for cutting-edge EPON optical networking
  solutions.
- Developed original PC-based applications to increase engineer productivity.
- Responsible for organizing and maintaining build environments with many 
  different cross-compilers and source control systems.
- Developed embedded firmware in C for the ARM and 8051 microprocessors.
- Developed and maintained a C# script-based firmware testing platform,
  including the coordination of several types of Ethernet traffic generators.
- Worked closely with customers, including working directly with Japanese
  customers in Japan.

Elliott Burke                                            February 2004 - Present
We Design / Webmaster
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- Wrote and maintained professional photographer's personal site
  "www.elliottburke.com" using strict XHTML and CSS.

Cazadero Properties                                    January 1997 - March 2008
We Design / Webmaster
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- Wrote original site in HTML in 1997, then rewrote it in PHP many years later.
- Maintained inventory of listings/photos using PHP, Javascript and Photoshop
  scripts.

EDUCATION
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Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 2005
Minor: Mathematics
GPA: 3.923 / 4.0
Honors:
- Graduated Summa Cum Laude.
- Awarded "Graduation with Distinction" from the SSU Computer Science
  Department.
- Won the first two SSU computer programming competitions.
Extracurricular activities:
- Participated in the SSU computer programming team.
- President of the SSU Japanese Animation club for 3 years.
Other skills:
- Low to intermediate level Japanese language skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
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Programming languages: Mastery of C and C#.  Extensive experience with Python,
Go, F#, SQL, XML, HTML, Javascript, CSS, PHP.  Experience with Java, C++, TCL,
Haskell, Lisp, Elm, TypeScript, VBScript, Visual Basic, Assembly.

Protocols: Ethernet, optical networking (EPON and GPON).

Systems: MS Windows. Linux for PC, server and embedded. Microprocessors
including 8051, ARM and ARC. Several RTOS including ThreadX, VxWorks and
bare-bones.

Software: Visual Studio, Perforce, Git, Jenkins, JIRA, MS SQL Server, MySQL, 
MS Office, Adobe Photoshop, Google enterprise suite, vim.