Okopipi Software helps companies build and rescue software across Windows, the web, embedded Linux and digital video. You work directly with the senior engineer who writes the code.
Whether you need a new application, an extra senior engineer, or someone to fix a stubborn bug, I can cover the whole stack.
New builds and long-term care for business-critical desktop software, including modernizing older C++ and MFC code.
Business web apps and cloud back ends, designed with your users from the first requirements meeting.
Bootloaders, device drivers, board bring-up and firmware for embedded Linux, VxWorks and microcontrollers.
Set-top box and PVR middleware, graphics, streaming clients and conditional access.
Delivered directly and through consulting firms including Solekai Systems, Fairway Technologies, Wind River Systems and Doctor Design.
More than 15 years on a C#/.NET desktop application for the construction industry. Most recently, led a small team building a Blazor web app that helps production facilities reduce cost and waste.
Wrote the hardware abstraction layer for porting Netflix to TiVo, then built a next-generation TiVo box from scratch on embedded Linux with Bluetooth through BlueZ.
Bootloader, drivers, secure upgrade and conditional access for two generations of PVR, and technical lead on a combined TV and video player.
A free call to understand your goals, your codebase and what's in the way.
A written plan with deliverables and an estimate you can take to your team.
Regular check-ins and working code early, so there are no surprises at the end.
Clean code, documentation and a walkthrough, so your team can own it.
I started my career in 1995 as the founding engineer at NetPlay, a San Diego internet gaming startup, right after earning my B.S. in Computer Science from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
Since then I've written BIOS code and Windows drivers, built set-top boxes for TiVo and Nagra, led desktop and web projects for Simpson Strong-Tie, and debugged plenty of other people's assembly along the way.
In my spare time I help run tools for the RepRap 3D printer community, contribute to the Haxe and OpenFL open source projects, and build synthesizers out of Atmel microcontrollers.
Our namesake is a small, bright blue frog with black spots. It's easy to spot, and you don't want to be the bug that crosses it.
Send a few lines about what you're building. I reply to every message within one business day.