Donald Kinzer
Founder, President, Chief Engineer at Elba Corp
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorDonald Kinzer is a founder and hands-on embedded systems engineer with over a decade of commercial experience building hardware and software for microcontroller-based products. As Founder, President and Chief Engineer of Elba Corp he created the ZX series of BASIC-programmable microcontrollers and the ZBasic ecosystem aimed at hobbyist, robotics and industrial control markets. He combines deep Atmel AVR expertise with practical circuit and firmware design, and has a track record of shipping both products and contract solutions. Earlier leadership roles—from director-level engineering posts to multiple startups—showcase his ability to scale teams and turn technical vision into commercially viable offerings. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he blends entrepreneurial grit with low-level technical craftmanship often missing in higher-level software-focused profiles. An underappreciated strength is his longstanding habit of bridging accessible tooling (ZBasic) with professional embedded workflows, making advanced hardware approachable to non-experts.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
platformio8
arduino7
esp82667
esp327
linux1
embedding1
nodemcu1
spiffs1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
DonKinzer/esp_tool
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
esp8266/Arduino
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
ESP8266 core for Arduino
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
platformioesp8266esp32arduino
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