Taun Chapman
Advanced Firmware Engineer (IoT) at Fellowes Brands
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaun Chapman is an advanced firmware engineer and multidisciplinary technologist with 13 years of experience building hardware+software products and leading cross-functional teams in IoT and agtech. He blends deep embedded firmware and BLE expertise with cloud and backend skills (Elixir/Nerves, AWS, Docker, k8s, PostgreSQL) to move functionality from cloud to edge, cut costs, and improve reliability. As a founder and former CTO he drove manufacturing and product pivots that halved hardware costs and delivered a patented safety system now protecting over a million users. Taun mentors engineering teams on best practices, observability, and maintainable patterns while continuing to prototype novel user interactions for iOS/macOS. He started programming on an HP-67 in 1976, reflecting a lifelong curiosity for tightly integrated hardware–software solutions.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree French Language and Literature Pre-Med PoliSci, Bachelor’s Degree French Language and Literature Pre-Med PoliSci at Guilford CollegeBASc Computer Aided Automation, BASc Computer Aided Automation at The University of British ColumbiaCoursework Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Coursework Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
French, German
Github Skills (3)
elixir2
mqtt1
connections1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
taun/MailBoxesApp
Feb 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 4 years 10 months
ROARforGood/bbb_purple
Feb 2022 - Feb 2023
Custom Nerves BBB target
Contributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 8 PRs in 11 months
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