Jay Francis
Owner Principal Waregineer at Reactive Technologies
New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolJay Francis is an owner/principal "waregineer" with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing hardware and software for networking, video, and robotics, from rapid prototypes to production systems. He combines deep high-speed digital, analog, FPGA/CPLD, and microcontroller expertise with PCB layout and manufacturing know-how, having taken products through overseas sourcing and even space-bound projects. A two-time start-up veteran and former principal hardware engineer for optical switching, he thrives on turning napkin sketches into cost-effective MVPs for industry, research labs, artists, and makers. Parallel to engineering, he holds an MS in Exercise Science and has coached and tested endurance athletes, bringing a data-driven, performance-oriented mindset to technical problem solving. Lifelong curious, he pursues Chinese study and off-road triathlon skills, reflecting a rare blend of technical rigor and applied human performance insight.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Continuing education in Chinese, Continuing education in Chinese at Southern New Hampshire UniversityContinuing education in Chinese, Continuing education in Chinese at University of New Hampshire
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Github Skills (44)
5g10
4g10
nmea10
dac10
morse-code10
specification10
rtl-sdr10
software-defined-radio10
gnuradio10
ais10
pid9
communications9
operating-system8
arduino8
earth8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
robojay/_2020Bot_Library
Feb 2017 - Jul 2019
Arduino Library for the 2020 Bot
Contributions:5 releases, 2 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 5 months
arduino-library
OpenResearchInstitute/openrotor
Jul 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
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