Chris Hamilton
Founder at Fyber Labs
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Hamilton is a serial founder and seasoned technologist with 21 years of experience building hardware, large-scale search and big data systems, and blockchain-enabled products from concept to market. He combines hands-on circuit and firmware design—having shipped 30+ commercial and open-source boards and contributed STM32 support to the Espruino project—with enterprise-grade architecture for search clusters, streaming pipelines, and high-availability appliances. As founder of Fyber Labs he blends wearable electronics, haptics and biometric sensors with cloud analytics and event-driven backends (Kafka/Storm/Redis/Cassandra), while his blockchain work spans Solidity smart contracts, PoS/PoW research, and governance for social-impact projects. Comfortable leading both direct and distributed teams, he brings deep DevOps and SRE expertise (Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes) and a track record of deploying clusters across AWS, Azure and GCE. Known for translating lean MVP hardware into marketable products sold to engineers at Tesla, Apple and others, he pairs product instincts with rigorous architecture and published HPC/HA designs.
21 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Michigan
Github Skills (9)
embedded10
spi10
microcontroller10
sys10
stm32f410
javascript9
iot8
c178
c118
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
espruino/Espruino
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
The Espruino JavaScript interpreter - Official Repo
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the Espruino JavaScript interpreter by adding support for the STM32F401C Discovery board, a common microcontroller development board. Their work involved creating a board definition file, which specifies pin mappings, device configurations, and board-specific details required for Espruino to function correctly on the hardware. They also addressed issues with the MEMS sensor configuration, updated the SPI settings, and incorporated the latest peripheral library for the STM32F401C.
javascriptinterpreterespruinojavascript-interpreter
FyberLabs/FlexModule
Aug 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:144 commits, 87 pushes in 3 years
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