Matt Ruffner
Engineer at Faradine Systems
Lexington, Kentucky, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Ruffner is an engineer with 12 years of experience blending embedded firmware, rapid prototyping, and signal analysis to deliver practical hardware-software systems. With a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Kentucky, he applies academic rigor as a Graduate Research Assistant while leading product-focused engineering at MoveTones, LLC and contributing electrical engineering expertise at Faradine Systems. His work spans low-level embedded development, ROS-based robotics internships, and sophisticated signal processing—skills he pairs with a knack for musical instrument design (mandolins) that informs creative problem solving. Based in Lexington, Kentucky, he is comfortable moving from concept prototypes to production-ready firmware and measurable system performance.
12 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Kentucky
Github Skills (59)
arduino-library10
arduino9
spatial6
backbone6
sensor6
samd216
timer6
synthesizer6
ros5
accelerometer5
microchip5
robot5
encoder5
robotics5
watchdog4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ruffner/resume
Oct 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
UKyKORA/ukrmt.github.io
Sep 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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