Ashwin Whitchurch
CEO And Managing Director at Patch Inc.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAshwin Whitchurch is an embedded systems leader and serial founder with 11 years of experience building sensor-driven products and wireless IoT solutions from concept to market. As CEO and Managing Director of Protocentral and Circuitects, and Co-Founder/CTO of Patch Inc., he combines deep hardware and firmware expertise with product and business leadership across healthcare, defense, scientific instrumentation and retail. His work ranges from wearable patient-monitoring systems and wireless sensor networks to embedded designs informed by an MS in Microelectronics-Photonics and an early research background in neurophysiological sensors. Known for hands-on prototyping (“making stuff” at Protocentral), he bridges academic research and commercial engineering to deliver practical, regulatory-aware solutions.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc., Software Engineering, M.Sc., Software Engineering at Bharathiar UniversityStanesM.S., Microelectronics-Photonics, M.S., Microelectronics-Photonics at University of Arkansas
Github Skills (61)
heart-rate10
hat10
ide10
hardware10
breakout10
bluetooth10
arduino-library10
esp3210
arduino-ide10
arduino10
medical10
monitoring9
microcontroller9
firmware9
espressif9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Protocentral/protocentral-healthypi-v3
May 2017 - Feb 2020
HealthyPi is the first fully open-source, full-featured vital sign monitor. Using the Raspberry Pi as its computing and display platform, the HealthyPi add-on HAT turns the Raspberry Pi into a vital sign monitoring system.
Contributions:3 releases, 23 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 9 months
monitoringraspberry-pi
Protocentral/protocentral_tla20XX_arduino
Dec 2022 - May 2026
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
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