Jason Kridner

Jason Kridner is a founder and president of the board at the BeagleBoard.org Foundation and an independant embedded systems consultant. As a 28 year veteran of Texas Instruments, he developed experience in the design, manufacturing, testing, applications and marketing of integrated circuits used in embedded systems.

The BeagleBoard.org® Foundation is a US-based 501c3 non-profit existing to provide education in and collaboration around the design and use of open-source software and hardware in embedded computing. Jason leads the development of and maintains open-source development tools such as BeagleBoard®, -xM, -X15, PocketBeagle®, BeagleBone®, Black, Blue, and AI. Kridner has been a featured keynote speaker and instructor at many industry and educational events including Maker Faires, American Society of Engineering Education Conferences, Embedded Linux Conferences, Collaboration Summit, Android Builders, OSCON, CES and others.