Ashley Newton
Co-founder, Interactive Tech Artist at Sustainable Magic
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAshley Newton is an embedded systems engineer and co-founder who blends 11 years of firmware, cloud, and product experience with a background in cognitive science, market research, and interactive art. She builds connected devices and IoT firmware (ESP32, C/C++, Python) and has operated production GCP/Kubernetes stacks, cutting CI/CD times and shipping secure camera firmware for real-time AI surveillance. Her work bridges biofeedback-driven LED art, Kickstarter-funded mobile maker studios, and consumer hardware production—demonstrating both creative design and factory-ready engineering. A practiced educator and systems thinker, she designs hands-on workshops and learning experiences that make complex tech accessible to kids and adults. Based in San Francisco, she combines human-centered design and applied cognition to build products that are technically robust and socially engaging.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Cognitive Science, Bachelor's Cognitive Science at Smith CollegeDiploma, Diploma at Harwood Union High School
English, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (53)
google-cloud-firestore10
signal9
ethernet9
chat9
arduino9
swift8
esp328
firebase-cloud-messaging8
stream8
secured8
esp82668
sign-in-with-apple8
fat8
platformio8
messenger8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
technorainbows/LED-IOT-api
Jul 2019 - Jul 2020
Simple LED IOT api
Contributions:279 commits, 19 PRs, 196 pushes in 1 year
ledapiiot-apiiot
technorainbows/Firebase-ESP-Client
Feb 2023 - May 2023
🔥Firebase Arduino Client Library for ESP8266 and ESP32. The complete, fast, secured and reliable Firebase Arduino client library that supports RTDB, Cloud Firestore, Firebase and Google Cloud Storage, Cloud Messaging and Cloud Functions for Firebase.
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
rcfirebase-firestoresecuredgoogle-cloudstorage
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