Juha Kuikka
Senior Firmware Engineer at Axon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJuha Kuikka is a senior firmware and embedded software engineer with 17+ years driving low-latency connectivity, device drivers, and platform bring-up across consumer, telecom, and robotics products. He has led teams and projects at Meta, Amazon, Axon and Synapse, combining hands-on driver and firmware development (C/C++, Android, embedded Linux, ARM) with systems-level protocol analysis for Wi‑Fi, BLE and other radio stacks. Juha excels at rapidly diagnosing protocol-level issues and implementing pragmatic, high-performance solutions—from BSP and bootloader work to real-time avionics and VR/AR telemetry systems. He pairs deep hardware bring-up experience (TI OMAP, AM3359, PSoC6, FPGA integration) with practical product delivery including certification and manufacturing readiness. Based in Seattle, he is equally comfortable as a technical lead, mentor and individual contributor who helps others reach similar problem-solving velocity. A less obvious strength is his long-standing background in Internet protocols and academic teaching, which informs a systematic approach to complex embedded networking challenges.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. (Eng) Telecommunications network and protocols Software engineering (embedded), M.Sc. (Eng) Telecommunications network and protocols Software engineering (embedded) at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018
Finnish, Swedish, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (58)
infiniband10
hfp10
freertos10
mcu10
git-repository10
a2dp10
microcontroller10
hardware10
zephyr10
iot10
rtos10
bluetooth10
alsa10
bluez10
embedded10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kuikka/pyble
May 2016 - Jan 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
kuikka/cpp-experiments
May 2017 - Sep 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
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