Ken Burns
President at TinyCircuits
Akron, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKen Burns is an experienced electrical engineer and entrepreneur with 13+ years leading product design and manufacturing as founder and President of TinyCircuits, an open-source electronics company famed for the wildly successful TinyDuino Kickstarter. He combines deep embedded-hardware and firmware expertise—from low-power RF and antenna design to FPGA and microcontroller systems—with hands-on product development and manufacturing experience. Prior roles include senior engineering and project management at AVID, where he led HART/WirelessHART industrial communications work and shipped high-volume consumer control systems, and early-career platform design for ARM-based handhelds and ASIC firmware. Ken holds both BSEE and MSEE degrees from The University of Akron, maintains a background supporting classified projects for intelligence applications, and is comfortable bridging bleeding-edge hardware, regulatory/security requirements, and commercial scale. Notably, he has repeatedly turned niche technical standards into shipping products and community-driven platforms.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at The University of Akron
Github Skills (13)
ide10
arduino-ide10
arduino10
arduino-library9
displays7
adafruit6
notification4
golang3
raspberry1
rp20401
raspberry-pi-pico1
javascript1
raspberry-pi1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TinyCircuits/TinyCircuits-TinyLily_USB-ASL2111
Aug 2012 - Aug 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 8 years 1 month
TinyCircuits/TinyCircuits-TinyDuino-ASM2001
Aug 2012 - Aug 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 12 pushes in 8 years 1 month
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