Ivan Kravets
Founder, CEO at PlatformIO Labs
Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolIvan Kravets is a founder and CEO with 12+ years building developer tools for embedded systems, best known for creating PlatformIO which empowers over 4 million engineers to escape vendor lock-in. He combines deep embedded systems engineering (ESP32/ESP8266/STM32) with DevOps and CI/CD expertise, contributing to widely used repos like platformio-core and arduino-esp32. A Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Ivan pairs research rigor with practical product-building—reimagining IDEs, debugging, and OTA workflows to simplify multi-platform firmware development. His background as a lecturer, consultant, and serial founder shows a rare mix of academic, entrepreneurial, and hands-on firmware craftsmanship. Notably, he’s driven improvements from unit-testing and JUnit reporting in PlatformIO core to build-system fixes that directly impact large open-source IoT ecosystems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Engineering at National Aviation UniversityHigh school, High school at Buchach Kolegium of Saint Yosafat
Ukrainian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
atom-editor10
unit-testing10
platformio10
javascript10
c-language10
coffeescript10
build-system10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
cicd10
esp826610
iot10
googletest10
script10
linker10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
platformio/platformio-atom-ide-terminal
Feb 2016 - Dec 2020
A terminal package for Atom, complete with themes, API and more for PlatformIO IDE
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:29 releases, 107 commits, 67 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to the Atom IDE terminal package, addressing UI and functionality issues. They fixed menu item issues, corrected package names, and implemented the "Focus" menu item. The user also updated styles and made changes related to handling the terminal's lifecycle and focus behavior within the Atom environment.
iterm2platformio-ideplatformioconemucmd
platformio/platform-ststm32
May 2016 - Jan 2023
ST STM32: development platform for PlatformIO
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:39 releases, 349 commits, 30 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ivan primarily contributed to the STM32 platform for PlatformIO, focusing on embedded systems and IoT development. Their work involved refactoring build variables, refactoring and refactoring codebase, and simplifying project configuration. They also added examples to the Arduino framework and made several updates to include a DFU (Device Firmware Update) upload protocol. This included addressing and integrating support for specific hardware configurations.
continuous-deploymentplatformio-platformfirmwarestm32arduino
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