Karl Kaiser
Silicon Engineering Manager at Oculus Research
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKarl Kaiser is a Silicon Engineering Manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience specializing in low-power ASIC architecture, electronics product design, and program and people management. At Oculus Research since 2018 he bridges deep hardware expertise with leadership, driving cross-functional teams to deliver power-efficient silicon for immersive systems. Trained at ETH Zürich with advanced electrical engineering degrees, he combines rigorous academic foundations with practical product-focused execution. Known for balancing architectural rigor and pragmatic trade-offs, he frequently translates complex analog/digital constraints into manufacturable designs and schedules.
11 years of coding experience
MS EE, Engineering, MS EE, Engineering at ETH ZürichBS & MS EE (Dipl. El.-Ing. ETH), Engineering, BS & MS EE (Dipl. El.-Ing. ETH), Engineering at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland
Github Skills (17)
spark-core10
home-automation8
python8
iot8
arduino-library8
home-assistant8
zigbee7
mqtt7
raspberry-pi7
arduino6
automation6
privacy6
asyncio5
apache-spark5
spark4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
bentuino/temboo
Jun 2014 - Jan 2015
Temboo Arduino Library v1.2 with added support for Spark Core
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 7 months
connectorarduino-libraryspark-corev1-2spark
knkaiser/nRF51822-Arduino
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
firmwareesp8266arduinoarduino-ideide
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