Yuk Poon
Sr. Engineering Manager at Particle
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolYuk Poon is a senior engineering manager and firmware specialist with 13 years’ experience building embedded systems, IoT products, and wireless stacks across startups and research labs. As Sr. Engineering Manager at Particle and co‑founder/CTO of Red Bear, he has led Bluetooth LE and Wi‑Fi firmware development, board design, and open source collaborations with mbed, Arduino and Nordic. His hands‑on background spans device drivers, embedded Linux, ARM MCUs and real-world fixes in Device OS and Mbed OS, including MAC, SPI and interrupt handling improvements. He combines deep low‑level debugging skills with product leadership—having shipped consumer electronics, Arduino‑compatible boards and supported Kickstarter campaigns. Based in Hong Kong with an MSc in Computer Science from HKU, he retains a maker’s curiosity, evident from early iOS BLE framework work and ongoing open‑source contributions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
Github Skills (31)
mbed10
objective-c10
c-language10
ios10
system-configuration10
particle10
pincode10
bluetooth-le10
c1110
spi10
digital-logic10
c1710
i2c10
iot10
btle10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RedBearLab/iOS
Oct 2012 - Feb 2017
Provides a BLE framework for developing BLE App on iOS/OSX platform using RBL BLE Service.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:32 commits, 9 PRs, 8 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Yuk's primary contribution focused on developing a BLE framework for iOS/OSX platforms. The initial commit introduced foundational BLE code within a `BLE.m` file. Subsequent commits expanded support to include Mac OS X compatibility, added example projects demonstrating integration with the BLE framework, and implemented additional features like an iOS BLE Chat application and a BLE Controller iOS application. These updates centered around BLE-related communication, and peripheral management.
developingosxmaccatalystbluetoothble
particle-iot/device-os
Dec 2018 - Mar 2020
Device OS (Firmware) for Particle Devices
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Yuk primarily contributed to the device operating system's firmware, focusing on debugging and enhancing low-level functionalities. Their work involved fixing MAC address retrieval issues in listening mode and refining network interface initialization. They also optimized SPI peripheral usage by lowering the clock frequency for specific hardware, and resolving concurrent access issues. Furthermore, they addressed interrupt handling for power management and general system performance.
xenonparticleargonelectronfirmware
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