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 (186)
hardware-designs10
dpd10
lte10
resample10
wireless10
resampling10
docker-volume10
software-defined-radio10
receiver10
hardware10
driver10
dac9
heart-rate9
digital-signal-processing9
firmware9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
myriadrf/srsRAN_4G
Oct 2020 - Jun 2024
srsRAN 4G fork with native LMS API support
Contributions:4 PRs, 12 pushes, 16 branches in 3 years 9 months
4glms
abopen/parallella-open-case
Jun 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 2 tags in 7 months
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