Kea Barnes
Engineering Manager at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company (Cape Networks)
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolKea Barnes is an Engineering Manager with nine years of multidisciplinary experience bridging electronics, embedded firmware, and frontend software development. Based in the Western Cape, she progressed from FPGA and PCB design and embedded Linux work to senior software and frontend roles before leading engineering at Aruba (HPE), demonstrating rare full-stack hardware-to-cloud fluency. Kea excels at turning complex product requirements into manufacturable, user-friendly solutions, having designed PC interfaces, enclosure CAD, and production-ready firmware. She combines hands-on technical depth in Verilog, C/C++, Python and Qt with team leadership and product-focused delivery. An early career track in running an IT sales company adds commercial perspective to her technical decision-making.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechatronics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mechatronics at University of Cape TownSouth African College High School
Github Skills (105)
docker-container10
dockerfile10
docker-image10
raspberry10
docker-compose9
client-library9
docker-swarm9
webview9
portainer9
elevation9
docker9
location-services9
remote-development9
google-maps-api9
high-performance8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
keabarnes/struct_fragment
May 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 1 comment, 10 issues in 1 year 8 months
keabarnes/forgotten-issue-finder
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 release, 4 pushes, 1 tag in 5 months
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