Juergen Kienhoefer
Course Instructor at AIRcable LLC
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJuergen Kienhoefer is a veteran technology entrepreneur and instructor with 15 years of professional experience and over two decades building long-range Bluetooth products and industrial wireless systems. As founder and former CEO of Wireless Cables Inc. (AIRcable) and current Managing Partner at AIRcable LLC, he has turned niche radio expertise into commercial BLE modules that extend device range by an order of magnitude for industrial, medical, and consumer use. He now brings that hands-on hardware and systems background to teaching embedded systems and Linux system programming at UCSC Silicon Valley Extension, where he will launch an AI for Embedded Systems course in 2025. Juergen combines a strong academic foundation (Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science from KIT) with practical productization experience, uniquely bridging research-grade knowledge and real-world radio engineering.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat, Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (104)
espressif10
spiffs10
esp826610
nodemcu10
apache-cordova9
phonegap9
firmware9
bluetooth9
lua9
cordova-plugin9
esp329
bluetooth-low-energy9
iot9
ngx-mqtt8
driver8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aircable/SmartMesh
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 12 pushes in 5 months
aircable/EFE_projects
Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
Example and Tutorial Files for the Embedded Firmware Essentials Course
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
firmware
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