Christopher Konopka
Solutions Specialist at schwwaaa
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Konopka is a multidisciplinary solutions specialist with 12 years building IoT, embedded, and human-computer interaction systems from prototype to executive showcase. He combines hardware-software integration, rapid 0→1 prototyping, and UX-focused product validation—work that has demonstrated viability to C-suite and dignitaries and informed product and cybersecurity teams. At Motional he led modular vehicle and VR prototyping for VIP user journeys and accessibility testing, and previously evangelized cellular IoT at Twilio contributing practical SIM800/Arduino code snippets used by the developer community. Based in Boston, he pairs creative music-and-signal-processing roots from Berklee with pragmatic engineering—authoring anti-nausea hardware, brainwave visualizers, and production-ready cloud services—so he often bridges artful interaction design with rigorous systems engineering.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Production & Design/Jazz Composition, Computer Music, Physical Computing, Data Sonification, Sound Design, Jazz Composition, Electronic Production & Design/Jazz Composition, Computer Music, Physical Computing, Data Sonification, Sound Design, Jazz Composition at Berklee College of Music
Stackoverflow
21reputation
5kreached
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4questions
Github Skills (19)
c-language10
sys10
embedded10
serial-communication10
cprogramming-language10
arduino10
iot9
nested6
database6
callback6
attribute6
intellij-idea6
java6
javascript6
jar6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
TwilioDevEd/api-snippets
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
Code snippets for the Twilio API Documentation
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 18 PRs, 20 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Christopher contributed code snippets for interacting with a SIM800 modem and Arduino boards, likely for sending and receiving SMS messages. The code includes functions for initializing the modem, sending and receiving commands, and deleting SMS messages. The user implemented a library to interact with the SIM800 module, showcasing experience with embedded systems and cellular communication protocols. The user also created examples for different hardware platforms like Arduino and Adafruit FONA.
apitwilioapi-documentationsnippetstwilio-api
cskonopka/n4m-supplemental
Oct 2019 - Feb 2020
A compendium of Node-for-Max projects meant to be a supplement to the Cycling74 n4m-examples repository.
Contributions:130 commits, 113 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
cycling74n4mcompendiumsupplementjavascript
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