Mitchell Cairns
Director Of Design And Multimedia at Hand Held Legend
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMitchell Cairns is a multidisciplinary hardware and embedded systems lead with a decade of hands-on experience designing PCBs, firmware, and industrial hardware for competitive game controllers and consumer HID/Bluetooth devices. As Director of Design and Multimedia at Hand Held Legend, he blends electronics design (KiCad, Fusion 360) with embedded C/C++ and web-based configuration tools (JS/HTML/PWA) while supporting international retail partnerships and direct customers. He runs a local electronics repair business and has a history of freelance game and server development, evidencing both product-grade engineering and entrepreneurial grit. Comfortable across the stack—from low-level firmware to cloud-connected configuration apps—he brings practical industrial design sensibility and real-world UX feedback from e-sports users to every project.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts (AA), Communication, General, Associate of Arts (AA), Communication, General at Mission College
English
Github Skills (90)
usb-hid10
switch10
nintendo10
usb-devices10
esp3210
devkitpro10
espressif10
commodore10
midi10
nintendo-3ds10
iot10
webusb10
usb-drive10
usb10
dfu10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
HandHeldLegend/ProGCC-V3-RP2040
Apr 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:20 PRs, 168 pushes, 21 branches in 1 year 3 months
mitchellcairns/robochefs
Jun 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
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