Ken Boak
Owner & Lead Hardware Engineer at Arbour Wood Ltd.
Reigate and Banstead, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Boak is an experienced electronics hardware design engineer and founder with three decades of hands-on expertise in integrated product design, multilayer PCB layout, embedded firmware and FPGA development. As Owner & Lead Hardware Engineer at Arbour Wood Ltd he combines full-stack hardware delivery—from prototype SMT work and component-level testing to ARM/FPGA firmware and Far East volume manufacture partnerships in Shenzhen. His background spans precision instrumentation, low-voltage power electronics, telecoms and low-power sub-1GHz wireless systems, and he has led production engineering and CE/telecom approvals for commercial products. Notable for practical, shop-floor experience alongside system architecture, he also brings multilingual and international manufacturing insight from frequent business travel to the USA and Southern China.
10 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc (Hons), Electronic Engineering, 1st Class, B.Sc (Hons), Electronic Engineering, 1st Class at University University College of North Wales BangorB.Sc, Electronic Engineering, First Class, B.Sc, Electronic Engineering, First Class at University College of North Wales BangorPure Maths, Applied Maths, Physics and General Studies, Pure Maths, Applied Maths, Physics and General Studies at Ramsey Grammar School, Isle of ManGeorge Heriot's School
French
Github Skills (16)
retrocomputing9
c649
zx-spectrum9
z809
assembly8
circuit8
logic8
simulator8
designer7
simulation6
interpreter6
uvm6
digital-logic5
vhdl5
markdown4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
monsonite/Suite-16
Sep 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:56 commits, 54 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year
monsonite/MINT
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
A minimal interpreter in Z80 assembly for the RC2014 Micro
Contributions:108 commits, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
retrocomputingcompilerz80c64interpreter
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