Alison Hughes
Co-Founder & CEO at Little Barn Industries
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolAlison Hughes is a founder and engineer who builds hardware-aware software and products that enable creativity and better fit for real people. With over a decade of entrepreneurial experience and two decades of engineering work, she led development of Apple’s USB audio drivers and low-latency kernel I/O used across Macs, iPhones, iPads and the Cinema Display. She now runs Beatrice Forms, applying 3D body-scan and fabrication tech to reinvent dress forms and make custom apparel production accessible from a smartphone. Earlier roles include product-focused embedded and desktop software for makers at Other Machine Co. and a product design studio, Little Barn Industries, blending prototyping, IoT, and fabrication. A longtime maker and former DJ/music producer, she pairs systems-level technical depth with a strong empathy for creative workflows and users. Based in Boulder, Colorado, she also helped found Apple’s Women@Apple-Tech affinity group, showing a sustained commitment to diversifying technical teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at San Francisco State UniversityBachelor of Science, Biology, Bachelor of Science, Biology at University of California, Los AngelesGithub contributions (3)
aikochan/heyChicken
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 1 PR, 34 pushes in 2 months
aikochan/rfid_ID-20LA
Aug 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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