Don Harbin
Community Director CoreCollective (Arm Open Source Initiative)
Tempe, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDon Harbin is a pragmatic, hands-on technology leader with over 11 years of experience orchestrating distributed engineering teams, product strategy, and open source community programs across the Arm ecosystem. As Community Director for CoreCollective at Linaro he designs governance, technical processes, and procurement frameworks that scale global working groups and accelerate engineering velocity. His background spans product management, technical content, and professional services leadership—combining deep engineering instincts with proven commercial outcomes like enterprise contract wins and multi-year renewals. Don’s career traces back to embedded and systems engineering (Motorola, Intel) through to director-level delivery roles, giving him a rare fluency in both low-level technical detail and high-level ecosystem strategy. He is particularly noted for turning complex stakeholder needs into repeatable playbooks and procurement processes that sustain long-term community and product success.
10 years of coding experience
37 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Marriage and Family Counseling, Masters Marriage and Family Counseling at Phoenix SeminaryBSEE, BSEE at Kansas State University
Github Skills (16)
jekyll10
static-site10
hosts10
documentation10
ruby10
mezzanine9
linux8
daemon8
firmware8
sensor8
lava3
docker-compose3
development-environment2
docker2
docker-image2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dbharbin/streaming-radio
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:95 commits, 91 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
TrustedFirmwareWebsite/website
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
This is the repository for the static TrustedFirmware.org website.
Contributions:26 reviews, 811 commits, 453 PRs in 2 years 3 months
trustedfirmwarestatic-siterubyjekylljekyll-website
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