Eben Upton
Chief Executive Officer at Raspberry Pi
East Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolEben Upton is a seasoned technology entrepreneur and CEO with over a decade of experience building silicon-to-software products that democratize computing education. As founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation and architect of the BCM270x application processors during a long engineering tenure at Broadcom, he blends deep hardware and embedded-software expertise (C/C++, Python, Verilog, assembler) with product and organizational leadership. He has a strong academic grounding—PhD in Computer Science and an Executive MBA from Cambridge—and a track record of founding multiple companies that commercialized novel technologies from mobile games to middleware. Known for pragmatic engineering and systems-level thinking, he champions low-cost, high-impact computing platforms that scale in education and industry. An often-overlooked strength is his sustained role in standards and graphics architecture (Khronos OpenVG chair and VideoCore multimedia leads), showing influence beyond any single product.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA, Executive MBA at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (27)
bootloader10
raspberry-pi-pico10
asciidoc10
raspberry10
raspberry-pi-camera10
userspace10
modular9
firmware9
toolchain9
clang9
pygame9
documentation9
kernel9
raspberry-pi9
gpu8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ebenupton/documentation
Jul 2014 - Aug 2018
Official documentation for the Raspberry Pi
Contributions:8 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 1 month
raspberry-piraspberryraspberry-pi-3
ebenupton/49er
Feb 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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