Summary
Leo Kwok is a founder and seasoned engineer with nine years of entrepreneurial experience and decades-long technical roots in unified communications, networking, and electronic manufacturing. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has pioneered energy-conserving lighting innovations—holding multiple granted and pending patents—and brought disruptive products like the UT8 linear LED and an omni-directional LED bulb to North American markets with UL, DLC, and Energy Star recognition. His background at Siemens and Spear Voice Systems spans SIP, DNS, VoIP/TDM protocols, unified messaging, and multi-vendor PBX integration, giving him rare cross-domain fluency from firmware and networking to product certification and market introduction. Known for solving practical retrofit and installation challenges (for example dimming without extra wiring), he combines hands-on systems engineering with product-minded entrepreneurship. Outside work he values family time and plays soccer, reflecting a pragmatic, team-oriented approach to both engineering and business.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at California State University - East Bay
Spanish