Akiba Wang
Chief Technology Officer at FreakLabs
Chiba Prefecture, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolAkiba Wang is a CTO and founder with over 16 years of hands‑on experience designing and scaling wireless sensor networks, IoT devices, and embedded systems for environmental and public‑health applications. He leads FreakLabs, an open‑source initiative focused on wildlife conservation and infrastructure monitoring, combining firmware (C/C++) and back‑end (Python/Flask/Django) expertise to deliver end‑to‑end solutions from PCB to cloud. His career blends deep analog and FPGA instrumentation work—ranging from DNA sequencer front ends to smart grid and radiation sensor networks—with practical manufacturing and deployment experience in developing regions. Based in Chiba, Japan, he also founded HackerFarm, a rural hackerspace marrying agriculture and technology, and has taught manufacturing practices through MIT Media Lab collaborations in Shenzhen. Notably, he repeatedly turns research prototypes into production‑ready systems that prioritize accessibility and sustainability.
16 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (15)
wireless10
arduino9
ide8
arduino-ide7
sniffer6
fixed-point5
softwareserial5
porting5
logic4
nano4
manager3
shuttle3
avr2
lora1
arduino-library1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
freaklabs/freaklabs-boards
Dec 2015 - Aug 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
freaklabs/BoomBox
Jul 2019 - Jun 2025
Contributions:29 releases, 70 pushes, 37 tags in 6 years
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