Sandra Capri’s roles as a technical leader and contributor span 37 years, the
last seven exclusively in IoT. She began her career at Hewlett Packard and
later at Marvell Semiconductor where she developed printing/scanning
technologies. She worked in firmware development (in assembly and C
languages) and ASIC testing and design. At HP, she also gained experience
on Unix platforms (HP-UX and Linux) running on desktop workstations. She
leveraged her Unix workstation experience into working on embedded Linux at Marvell. Her breadth of experience allows her to assess the unique needs of various projects and evaluate the most appropriate platform for the job, e.g., bare metal, simple RTOS, Zephyr, or Linux.
Currently the CTO at Ambient Sensors, she is part of an excellent
engineering services team that loves taking on unique engineering challenges. Sandra has contributed to many diverse products; her current emphasis is designing/building embedded IoT systems with wireless protocols such as Bluetooth™, Bluetooth™Mesh, and WiFi. She leads the Ambient Sensors design partner relationship with Nordic Semiconductor and has collaborated on significant projects, including writing lighting models for their Bluetooth Mesh SDK. She also enjoys writing custom Bluetooth Mesh models for companies with unique and novel product ideas. She received a BS from the College of Idaho in Gipson Honors in Math and Computers, and an MSEE from Stanford University with an emphasis in networking. While at HP and Marvell Semiconductor she received multiple patents. She is a Senior member of the IEEE.
Sandra is a dog lover and has been training dogs for pet therapy for many
years. Her current Golden Retriever, Jake, is in training and he hopes to be a therapy dog soon.
