Kevin Hoogheem
Chief Operating Officer
Osseo, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Hoogheem is a strategic engineering leader and dual CTO/COO with 20+ years building hardware-to-app ecosystems in mobile, IoT, and sports/fitness technology. He blends hands-on mobile and firmware engineering with product and business strategy, having led launches like GolfONE and a real-time fan engagement platform that scaled to thousands of concurrent users. Kevin modernizes platforms and processes—migrating iOS to Swift Concurrency, Android to Kotlin, and introducing an AI vision-based QA workflow that halved manual QA while boosting coverage. He has deep embedded experience with Nordic NRF51/52 chips and has contributed to the iOS DFU ecosystem, reflecting both device-level and application-level expertise. Known for creating accountable, high-performing teams, he continuously turns emerging tech into commercially viable products and integrations.
14 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Dutch, Dutch at University of MinnesotaMasters Telecommunications, Masters Telecommunications at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota
English, Dutch, German
Github Skills (10)
corebluetooth10
firmware10
swift10
ios10
bluetooth-le10
btle10
dfu10
bluetooth-low-energy10
obj7
objective-c7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
NordicSemiconductor/IOS-DFU-Library
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
OTA DFU Library for Mac and iOS, compatible with nRF5x SoCs
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the iOS DFU (Device Firmware Update) library. The commits involve adding necessary import statements to facilitate the library's functionality without relying on external package managers like CocoaPods. Further improvements include the creation of a DFU UUID helper, refactoring the UUID helper to provide more structure and flexibility, and making adjustments to the buttonless DFU feature. Additionally, there are changes to the example view controller to accommodate the custom UUIDs.
bluetoothsmartnrf52nrf52840bluetooth-ledfu
FitnessKit/FitnessUnits
Apr 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:54 commits, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 8 months
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