Summary
Salman Faris is a customer-success-focused hardware and prototyping specialist with 10 years of experience building maker communities, supporting IoT and gateway hardware, and developing web-based digital signage apps. As co-founder of MakerGram and a Ranger at Seeed Studio, he bridges hands-on electronics prototyping with community programs and technical consulting, helping turn ideas into producible hardware. He has supported escalated LoRa gateway issues at Nebra and now develops Screenly Edge apps, combining web frameworks with embedded use cases. A former OSHWA board member and Fab Academy instructor, he pairs practical fabrication skills with advocacy for open hardware and maker education. Based in Kerala, he brings a pragmatic, resourceful approach—“start where you are, use what you have”—to solving customer problems and creating creative hardware use cases.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
SSLC High school, SSLC High school at Govt Manavedan Vocational Higher Secondary School
+2 Maths Commerce , +2 Maths Commerce at GHSS Erangimagad
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Calicut
Intro to Intraction Design : Summer school Design and Visual Communications General, Intro to Intraction Design : Summer school Design and Visual Communications General at Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID)
Diploma Digital Fabrication, Diploma Digital Fabrication at Academany - The Academy of (almost) Anything
Malayalam, English