Kirk Klobe
Firmware Manager at Resideo
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKirk Klobe is a firmware leader with 14 years of experience building embedded systems, Bluetooth-enabled medical devices, and consumer wearables, now managing firmware at Resideo in Minneapolis. He co-founded HabitAware and was CTO, where he designed the MotionFingerprint algorithm and end-to-end firmware and iOS software for a behavioral detection bracelet. His background includes driving the industry’s first Made for iPhone hearing aids at Starkey, contributing to multiple patents and shipping tight firmware–mobile integrations on ARM and CSR platforms. Kirk blends hands-on release engineering—maintaining developer tooling like Homebrew casks for SEGGER utilities—with strategic team leadership and product-focused R&D. He’s comfortable moving between low-level embedded constraints and polished mobile UX, and often surfaces practical automation improvements that keep toolchains current.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota
Github Skills (8)
homebrew10
homebrew-cask10
package-management10
automation9
automations9
build-system9
embedded8
sys8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask-drivers
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
💀 Casks of Drivers (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:135 commits, 147 PRs, 6 comments in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kirk's contributions primarily involve updating and adding software packages within a Homebrew Cask repository. They are responsible for updating existing casks related to SEGGER J-Link and Ozone tools, ensuring compatibility with new versions. They also added new SEGGER tools, such as SystemView. The user's work focuses on maintaining the availability and compatibility of various development tools via automated package management.
casksdriverscaskhomebrew
kklobe/homebrew-cask
Nov 2018 - Nov 2020
🍻 A CLI workflow for the administration of macOS applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:18 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 1 month
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
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