Summary
Naim Busek is a Principal Technologist with 13 years of hands-on experience designing and deploying low-power wireless sensing systems and embedded solutions that turn unexpected places into data sources. He has led tech teams and startups as CTO and Principal Technologist, shipping products that quantify food waste, monitor city infrastructure, and enable novel environmental sensing from soil to air. His background spans research labs to industry leaders—contributing to hardware integration at Amazon Prime Air, building sensor networks at Streetline, and collaborating on large-scale LED art and citizen science radiation kits. Naim excels at system architecture, sensor fusion, and pragmatic productization of novel sensing ideas, often delivering first-time-successes under tight schedules. Based on Bainbridge Island, he combines academic rigor from UCLA with entrepreneurial grit, routinely embedding sensors where they wouldn’t be expected to unlock new business and societal insights. A detail that often surprises collaborators: he pairs deep low-power RF and signal-processing expertise with creative applications in art and public-good projects.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Los Angeles