Andrés Sabas
Crossover Developer at Electronic Cats
Aguascalientes, Mexico
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrés Sabas is a crossover developer and maker with 11 years of experience designing firmware and embedded systems for hardware products, currently leading and directing projects at Electronic Cats from Aguascalientes, Mexico. He combines hands-on CircuitPython board support work—adding many microcontroller boards including Adafruit-supported platforms—with leadership in maker education as co-founder of The Inventor's House and past director roles at Campus Party. Comfortable bridging hardware and software, he has steered productization, training, and community-building initiatives while running startups like Beelan. A promoter of the DIY and open-hardware movement, Andrés brings practical electronics repair roots and an engineer’s discipline from Instituto Tecnologico de Aguascalientes to accelerate prototypes into production.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniero, Electronics Engineering, Ingeniero, Electronics Engineering at Instituto Tecnologico de Aguascalientes
Github Skills (15)
c1710
adafruit-circuit-python10
embedded10
c1110
microcontroller10
py10
sys10
system-integration10
integrations10
hardware-interface10
samd519
sam9
samd219
iot8
iot-devkit8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
adafruit/circuitpython
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:4 commits, 13 PRs, 1 branch in 1 day
Contributions summary:Andrés contributed primarily to the implementation of new hardware board support within the CircuitPython project. This involved defining pin mappings and board-specific configurations in C and related configuration files. The contributions included adding support for various "Electronic Cats" boards, specifically the "Meow Meow", "CatWAN USB Stick", "Bast Pro Mini M0", "Hunter Cat NFC", and the "BastBLE" boards, as well as the "Arduino MKR1300" and "Escornabot Makech" boards. This work demonstrates a focus on adapting CircuitPython to different microcontroller-based hardware platforms.
pythonpython-implementationteachingmicrocontrollerpython3
ElectronicCats/SolderingChallenge
Apr 2019 - Feb 2025
The classic Soldering challenge
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 3 PRs in 5 years 11 months
pcbkicadsmdkicad-footprintssoldering
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