Colin Burke
Lead Hardware Engineer at Swift Sensors, Inc.
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolColin Burke is a Lead Hardware Engineer in Austin with nine years of experience designing low-power IoT sensors and gateways, most recently driving a complete BLE nRF52840 “Series 3” product line from concept to market in ten months. He combines deep analog and power-electronics expertise with hands-on PCB layout (0201 to BGA), materials and mechanical considerations, and embedded firmware troubleshooting to deliver production-ready measurement and tracking devices. Colin has overseen compliance testing (FCC, CE, UL), coordinated overseas manufacturing, and engineered specialized systems like thermal calibration “blackbody” units and Pfizer vaccine monitoring variations. A former Xoogler and lifelong prototyper who favors Python for quick experiments, he’s known for solving the hardest hardware and firmware problems in small teams while mentoring junior engineers.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bishop Feehan High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Audio Engineering (Math Minor), 3.7, Bachelor of Science (BS), Audio Engineering (Math Minor), 3.7 at University of New Haven
Github Skills (35)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
crawsome/gitcheetsheet
Oct 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 2 months
crawsome/colinburke.github.io
Oct 2019 - Jun 2023
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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