Robert Feranec
Founder & CEO at FEDEVEL
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRobert Feranec is a hardware design engineer, founder and CEO of FEDEVEL (FEDEVEL Academy) with over a decade of experience helping professionals and companies design processors, motherboards and microcontroller boards. Trained at the Slovak Technical University and formerly a senior hardware engineer in Cambridge, he turned to education and open hardware in 2013, creating courses, workshops, a popular blog and YouTube content focused on Altium, Cadence OrCAD/Allegro and practical HW design tips. He leads several open-source hardware projects—iMX6Rex, 28Pins and OpenRex Education—that bridge professional designs and learn-by-doing kits for students and engineers. Based in San Jose, he combines hands-on board-level design with curriculum development, enabling experts to monetize teaching while scaling practical electronics education. Notably, his work emphasizes downloadable, reusable hardware resources and community support through forums and wikis, making advanced digital design approachable for hobbyists and professionals alike.
12 years of coding experience
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
eagle10
altium-designer9
hardware-designs8
hardware8
kicad8
electrical-engineering7
vlsi7
schematic6
eda5
cortex1
arm1
u-boot1
get-started1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
FEDEVEL/imx6rex-u-boot-2009.08
Sep 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 5 months
FEDEVEL/fedevel-project-directory-template
Nov 2017 - Jan 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
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