Jason Kridner

Jason Kridner is the Software Architecture Manager for Sitara™ ARM® processors at Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). During his 20-year tenure with TI, he has become an active leader in TI’s open source initiative and played an integral role in creating open-source development tools such as BeagleBoard, BeagleBoard-xM BeagleBone and now BeagleBone Black, a credit-card-sized Linux computer platform based on TI’s 1GHz Sitara™ AM335x ARM® Cortex™-A8 processor that runs Android 4.0 and Ubuntu software.

Inspired by the needs of a Linux developer, Kridner created the idea of pioneering a powerful, innovative and open community where developers and hobbyists could share solutions, showcase new projects, ask questions and offer feedback. Launched in 2008, BeagleBoard.org averages more than 50,000 hits per week and is now one of the most active open-source communities in the industry.

As a high-profile industry expert, Kridner has engaged audiences at a variety of industry and developer shows including Maker Faire, OSCON, CES, Design West, Android Builders Summit, Collaboration Summit, Design East and the Embedded Linux Conference.

In his free time, Kridner uses BeagleBone to explore his creativity and most recently created the BeagleBone Mustache App, which uses a webcam and computer vision to detect faces and superimpose fancy mustaches.