Donald Kinzer
Founder, President, Chief Engineer at Elba Corp
Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Summary
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SeniorDonald Kinzer is a seasoned hardware-software engineer, founder and chief engineer driving embedded solutions at Elba Corp since 2002. He combines hands-on development with entrepreneurial leadership, delivering commercial and in-house software for hobbyists, robotics, and industrial control systems. His specialty includes embedded systems development across hardware and software, with extensive expertise in Atmel AVR 8-bit microcontrollers. Under his leadership, Elba Corp has developed the ZX series microcontrollers programmed in ZBasic, a VB-derived language tailored for microcontrollers with extensions for embedded use. Based in Beaverton, Oregon, he has a long track record of starting and growing tech ventures and providing contract embedded development services. His career spans multiple leadership and engineering roles across startups and established tech firms, reflecting a rare blend of strategic vision and hands-on engineering.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (8)
platformio8
arduino7
esp82667
esp327
linux1
embedding1
nodemcu1
spiffs1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
DonKinzer/esp_tool
Jul 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:25 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
esp8266/Arduino
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
ESP8266 core for Arduino
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
platformioesp8266esp32arduino
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