Kevin Panaro
Firmware Quality Engineer at Apple
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Panaro is a firmware quality engineer with 11 years of experience building and validating embedded systems, currently driving firmware reliability at Apple from his base in Boulder, Colorado. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering with a DSP emphasis from Drexel and brings a hands-on background in microcontroller development, automation, and test infrastructure from roles at Seagate, Oracle, and ARRIS. Comfortable across Python, Bash, and configuration automation, he pairs scripting and CI-driven test design with low-level firmware validation to accelerate shipping robust products. Known as a DIY microcontroller geek and coffee connoisseur, he often prototypes music- and automation-focused projects on GitHub that inform his production testing approaches. His career shows a steady progression from test automation and component-level video analysis to co-simulation firmware engineering and large-scale firmware quality at a consumer-technology leader. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic troubleshooting and for translating hands-on hardware know-how into scalable, repeatable test systems.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at Drexel UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Conestoga High School
Github Skills (30)
python10
mqtt10
iot10
raspberry-pi10
asyncio9
internet-of-things9
hue9
home-automation9
ambient9
hyperion8
chromatic8
userspace8
pwm7
midi7
music6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kevinpanaro/qmk_firmware
Dec 2021 - Jan 2026
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:1 review, 73 pushes, 59 branches in 4 years 2 months
rp2040firmwareavratmelusb
kevinpanaro/esp8266_micropython
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:56 commits, 35 pushes in 19 days
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