Management Team
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Duane Maxwell
VP Software Development and FounderDuane has been a serial entrepreneur and software developer since the mid 80s, founding, among others, Gryphon Software, developing the multiple award winning hit product "Morph." He also developed CD edutainment titles for The Walt Disney Company, Warner Bros, IBM, Creative Wonders, Saban, and several other companies. After Gryphon was acquired by CUC/Cendant, Duane moved on to start Launchpad Technologies with idealLab!, which acquired Internet industry pioneer Pointcast and became Entrypoint/Infogate, then acquired by America Online, Inc. Duane also spent some time at Linspire, developing several open source applications. Duane has a BS in Mechanical Engineering and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
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Andrew "bunnie" Huang
VP Hardware Engineering and FounderAndrew is a nocturnal hacker and the hardware lead; his responsibilities include the architecture, design and production of chumby devices, as well as the strategic planning and ecosystem development of the broader chumby hardware platform. With a PhD in EE from MIT, he has completed several major projects, ranging from hacking the Xbox (and writing the eponymous book), to designing the world's first fully-integrated photonic-silicon chips running at 10 Gbps with Luxtera, Inc., to building some of the first prototype hardware for silicon nanowire device research with Caltech. bunnie has also participated in the design of 802.11b/Bluetooth transceivers (with Mobilian), graphics chips (with SGI), digital cinema CODECs (with Qualcomm), and autonomous robotic submarines (with MIT ORCA/AUVSI). He is also responsible for the un-design of many security systems, with an appetite for the challenge of digesting silicon-based hardware security. bunnie is also a contributing writer for MAKE magazine and a member of their technical advisory board.
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Ken Steele
Principal Software Architect and FounderKen is responsible for architecture of the chumby client firmware and maintenance of the Linux kernels and root file systems. With a decade of experience in the computer security industry prior to chumby, his primary focus revolved around intrusion detection and prevention, vulnerability research and exploit analysis. During his time with Intrusion, Inc., Ken architected and developed a platform independent distributed automation framework, designed to conduct complex and comprehensive analyses of network appliances via multi-gigabit real-world network simulation. At Nokia he researched vulnerabilities and conducted penetration tests against their Linux and FreeBSD based network appliances. At Network Associates, he focused his work on network state engines and signature development for host and network based IDSes. Ken began his professional software career at the prestigious IBM Almaden Research Center where he was given the opportunity to explore and participate in a wide array of technologies.
