Nick Kelsey
Chief Technology Officer at Silicondust USA, Inc
Glendale, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNick Kelsey is a veteran embedded systems architect and founder who has spent over two decades turning hardware-software concepts into mass-produced consumer products, currently serving as CTO of Silicondust where he leads development of the HDHomeRun TV-to-IP platform. His hands-on expertise spans PCB design, embedded drivers, network protocols (including ATSC 3.0, DLNA, TLS 1.2), content protection stacks, and cloud services—work that includes CableLabs certification and production partnerships in Taiwan. Earlier roles at Network Chemistry and Ubicom underscore his deep background in wireless stacks, power-over-Ethernet innovation, and CPU bring-up, with multiple patents to his name. Based in Glendale, Arizona, he combines founder-level product vision with low-level engineering rigor, even running an in-house CNC workshop to accelerate prototyping.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electronic and Computer Engineering, BE, Electronic and Computer Engineering at Manukau Institute of Technology
Github Skills (35)
controlling10
mechanism10
sniffer9
pcap9
pcapng9
network-tools9
packet9
client-library9
libpcap9
https-server9
cli9
tcpdump8
cpp8
network-monitoring8
kernel8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Silicondust/libhdhomerun
Jan 2016 - Dec 2022
Silicondust library and cli utility for controlling HDHomeRun tuners
Contributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 37 pushes in 6 years 11 months
controllinghdhomeruncli-utilityclisilicondust
Silicondust/sdnet
Mar 2018 - Dec 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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