Chris Taylor
Hardware Product Line Manager at Emporia
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Taylor is a hardware product line manager and embedded systems specialist with 15 years of experience delivering consumer and industrial products from prototype to high-volume release. Based in Denver, he has led multidisciplinary teams at SparkFun, Meow Wolf, Hygge Power, FreeWave, and now Emporia, combining hands-on embedded firmware and power-control design with product strategy and go-to-market coordination. He excels at managing complex cross-functional workflows—scoping, budgeting, vendor vetting, and aligning engineering deliverables to business and exhibition timelines. His background includes authoring closed-loop control systems on dsPIC and shipping hundreds of maker-focused hardware products at a cadence of roughly one new SKU per week. Known for translating creative briefs into reliable production hardware, he brings a pragmatic mix of technical depth and program leadership. He pairs a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from CU Boulder with a track record of turning prototypes into manufacturable, market-ready devices.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English
Github Skills (11)
shield10
sparkfun10
arduino10
wifi10
eagle9
arduino-library4
motor-driver3
graphic2
backpack2
lcd2
firmware2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sparkfun/Old-SparkFun-Eagle-Library
Oct 2010 - Dec 2011
SparkFun's Public Eagle PCB Footprints for pre-Eagle 6.0
Contributions:37 commits in 1 year 1 month
sparkfun
sparkfun/WiFly-Shield
Jun 2012 - Apr 2015
WiFly Shield -- A shield for the Roving Networks RN-52 WiFly Module.
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 10 months
shieldrovingwifiarduinosparkfun-products
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