Andrew Back
Managing Director at AB Open
Calderdale, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorAndrew Back is a managing director and open source advocate with over 20 years of cross-disciplinary experience spanning electronics, telecommunications, computing infrastructure and embedded systems. He leads AB Open, co-founded SolderPad and founded the Open Source Hardware User Group, applying open collaboration models to bridge semiconductor vendors, equipment makers and developer communities. As Director & Treasurer of the FOSSi Foundation he helps grow the free digital hardware ecosystem while bringing practical consultancy experience to product and standards strategy. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and IEEE member, he combines technical depth with community-building and a background in art that explores technology’s cultural impacts—an uncommon blend that informs his pragmatic, design-aware approach to open hardware and software collaboration.
16 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (200)
resample10
hardware10
heart-rate10
dac10
kicad10
dpd10
rtl-sdr10
wireless10
resampling10
open-hardware10
gsm10
gnuradio10
lte9
cffi9
lime9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
myriadrf/LimeSDR-USB_Hacker_Case
Dec 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
myriadrf/LMS7002M-docs
Feb 2015 - Sep 2020
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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