Miniature arcade-machine follow-up to Julian Caro Linares' build on the Arduino UNO Q — concentration tracking with CO2 and an accelerometer, testing traditional control against continuous movement sensing, running on Zephyr.
#unoq #zephyr #edgeai
Eoin Jordan
Senior Developer Relations Engineer | Applied Edge AI Research and Developer Education | Agentic AI & MCP | Edge AI | Embedded Systems
Galway, County Galway, Ireland
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About↗
I research and educate about edge-intelligent systems at the intersection of automation, IoT, and machine learning. I combine research, past experience, and hands-on work to explain how these systems operate in real-world environments. My focus is on systems that actually run in practice — particularly where modern AI tooling must integrate with legacy infrastructure and platforms — and how memory, latency, reliability, deployment, and maintainability shape system design across industrial, automotive, and embedded contexts. I work with a learn-by-doing approach: breaking systems, rebuilding them, then reading deeply to explain why they behave the way they do. Outside software I'm a hands-on automotive mechanic and driving enthusiast (Nürburgring, Mondello Park, Spa-Francorchamps), and I mentor with CoderDojo and Junior Achievement Ireland.
Experience↗
Senior Developer Relations Engineer — Qualcomm
2025-04 – Present · Ireland · Remote
- Lead and implement innovative technical projects across the Qualcomm developer community.
- 800+ answered posts on the Edge Impulse / Qualcomm developer forum providing technical support.
- Guest lectures and webinars on embedded systems and Edge AI (UCC, MTU, BioInnovate, Future Mobility).
- Apply 3D printing, Python and AWS to enhance project outcomes and community resources.
Senior Developer Relations — Edge Impulse
2022-03 – Present · Remote
- 179+ documentation pull requests and 800+ answered forum posts on forum.edgeimpulse.com.
- Authored 15+ blogs plus an Elektor article on Arduino Opta PLC and contributed to IEEE papers.
- Engineering contributions to internal hardware-in-the-loop and automation projects.
- Event demos and 7 custom 3D-printed cases published to Thingiverse (featured in a Harvard open-source book).
- Guest lecturer for 3+ universities; talks, webinars and live events across MWC, Qualcomm San Diego and EU partners.
Technical Lead Software Engineer — IBM
2017-09 – 2024-03 · Galway, Ireland
- Technical lead Java developer for the existing Networking solution.
- Migrated and upgraded Network Management CI/CD: Cron→Jenkins, ClearCase→Git.
- Built new Cloud Network Monitoring offering deployed to OpenShift.
- Owned IBM Cloud Pak Certification, Red Hat Certification, and Security Process Automation.
- Stack: Microservices, Spring Boot, Jenkins, Git, Maven, Kubernetes, Helm, OCP, Cloud Pak, Kafka.
Software Engineer — IBM (Wipro TUPE)
2014-04 – 2017-09 · Galway, Ireland
- Java, Maven, Python, Docker, Jenkins, SonarQube, CI/CD.
- AppScan (static and dynamic code scan), ASOC, Red Hat container certification, IBM vulnerability assessment.
- Network device management, security, mentoring, presenting, IoT, UX, cloud and mobile development.
Mobility Application Developer — Hewlett-Packard
2011-04 – 2014-04 · Galway, Ireland
- Cross-platform, Android, PhoneGap, jQuery, JS frameworks, Enyo.
- UX, Agile / SCRUM framework.
IT Support, Web Developer (Internship) — Hewlett-Packard
2010-09 – 2011-04 · Galway, Ireland
- Created a monitoring dashboard for tracking support-ticket progress, projected on screens around the office.
Recommendations↗
When I first started with IBM Eoin was already an experienced IBMer.
Although he was in a different group to me he really made me feel welcome and thought me the inner workings of IBM and showed me that you need to take it upon yourself to learn, grow, and get initiatives off the ground; instead of relying on the company to do it for you.
He was involved with so many different activities yet still seemed to be getting the daily job done. Some examples were: CoderDojo, IoT Summer School, Various electronics projects, and much more.
Eoin is very passionate about technology and this passion is infectious. If you want to get excited about technology, just hang around with Eoin for a bit!
Ronan Connolly
Agentic engineering @ Yellowtail · Ex-Fidelity · Amsterdam
Peer recognition
incredibly helpful handling the forum, doubling the effort since Shawn left — 491 answers and 79 likes in a year.
Louis Moreau Edge Impulse (a Qualcomm company)Without your example we'd be toast at MSI.
Josh Buck Qualcomm- Asked for the agentic AI work to be presented at the next All Hands, and for the Claude skill to be published widely.Zach Edge Impulse (a Qualcomm company)
- Highlighted the agentic AI work as showing Edge Impulse as a platform, not just Studio.Dan Edge Impulse (a Qualcomm company)
- Recognised the Zephyr work — the Edge Impulse SDK documentation now lives in the Zephyr docs, tested, documented and blogged.Francesco Edge Impulse (a Qualcomm company)
- Recognised the fire-drill Synthetic Data Integration docs, turned around in days, and support for the Golioth partner announcement.Linda Edge Impulse (a Qualcomm company)
- Recognition for leading the LLM workshop and shipping agentic AI — MCP server plus Claude skill — ahead of the curve.Taruna Emani, Louis Moreau Qualcomm / Edge Impulse
- Recognition for cross-team work on agentic AI, UCC Arduino Fun Day, and expanding DevRel culture within Qualcomm.Paul Kelleher, Louis Moreau Qualcomm / Edge Impulse
- Recognition for the fire-drill Synthetic Data docs, the Elektor takeover issue, and the EMEA AI upskilling session for interns.Eden Harris, Michael Senese, Paul Kelleher Qualcomm / Arduino
Talks, guest lectures & events↗
- Taking Linux Edge AI into ProductionImagine Innovators, Amsterdam
- On-device GenAI with QNN — Qualcomm San DiegoQualcomm HQ, San Diego
- MLOps and QNN on Snapdragon — joint sessionMunster Technological University (MTU) × Qualcomm
- Edge AI on Arduino UNO Q — MWC Barcelona demosMobile World Congress, Barcelona
- Edge AI guest lecture — Arduino Fun DayUniversity College Cork (UCC)
- Zephyr Project (with Francesco Varani & Benjamin Cabé)
- Embedded ML onsite enablementQualcomm Embedded team
- Arrow AI roadshow — Edge AI on Qualcomm / Arduino / ZephyrQueen's University Belfast — Future Mobility campus
- Qualcomm + Dell robotics enablementQualcomm / Dell, Cork
- EMEA AI upskilling session for internsQualcomm EMEA
- LLM workshop — offline SLMs, RAG and agentic toolingQualcomm / Edge Impulse
- Edge AI briefing for visiting academicsQualcomm Ireland, with onsite engineering teams
- Edge AI for medtech innovators (guest lecture, 3rd year running)BioInnovate Ireland
- Edge AI for automotive — onsite sessionFuture Mobility Automotive Research Group, University of Galway
- Zephyr Project webinar
- Edge Impulse / Arduino webinar
- FOSDEM
- IoT Summer SchoolNUI Galway / IBM Galway
- Edge AI for mobility and automotiveFuture Mobility Campus Ireland (FMCI)
- Speaker — Droidcon NYCDroidcon, New York City
Top LinkedIn posts (last 365 days)↗
Rebuilt Clippy as a Zephyr .llext zapp on Jonathan Beri's zephyr-desktop — Qwen Coder plus a RAG index over the real Zephyr docs, hosted on Hugging Face and runnable locally as a coding assistant.
#zephyr #rtos #lvgl #edgeai #offlinellm #rag #slm
Edge Impulse is now an external module in the Zephyr Project documentation — bringing embedded ML into Zephyr applications as an integrated module, with new west extension commands. Co-authored with Francesco Varani.
#zephyr #west #embedded #edgeai #tinyml #opensource
Open-source work↗
- eoinjordan/gb-studio-agent ★16 · TypeScript — Claude or other MCP Agentic integration for GB Studio Automated game asset creation and project management REST API endpoints for scenes, actors, assets, and validation End-to-end workflow with your MCP server
- eoinjordan/CarWhispering ★11 · Jupyter Notebook — Car Whispering: the AI Mechanic TinyML Audio Event Detection
- eoinjordan/GBA-Studio ★7 · TypeScript —
- eoinjordan/unoq-braccio ★3 · Python —
- eoinjordan/snes-studio ★2 · Python — Kid-friendly, human-in-the-loop SNES homebrew game studio. Ships Poachermon (Gotta Save 'Em All!) as the launch template. Visual editor, native asset pipeline, EmulatorJS preview. Free to deploy on Vercel/Netlify.
- eoinjordan/gba-engine ★1 · C — Portable C runtime for Game Boy Advance homebrew (devkitARM): HAL, Mode 0 background rendering, scene/actor management, and a minimal scripted-behaviour VM. Extracted from GBA Studio for standalone reuse.
Publications & articles↗
- Edge Intelligence: a light in the fog — a review paper ResearchGateReview of edge-intelligence architectures across fog and edge deployments.
- Edge-Intelligence-Enabled Smart Sensors IEEE · 2025
- INFINITECH H2020 — Technical Financial Innovation (TAHO chapter) H2020 project deliverable
- Arduino Opta PLC: Dual-System Industrial Hero Elektor MagazinePrint article.
- Every helmsman's dilemma — RNLI Galway, Node-RED IBM IoT Blog
Selected writing (Edge Impulse blog)↗
- Your Smartphone is a Portable Multimodal DAQ for Edge AI (2026-06)
- Lessons Learned From Building an Agentic AI MCP Server for Edge Impulse (2026-02)
- Unlocking Hardware Acceleration for Android with Qualcomm QNN (2026-01)
- Edge Impulse × Zephyr: New West Extension Commands (2026-01)
- Announcing the Edge Impulse Zephyr Module (2025-10)
- 2D to 3D Conversion: Synthetic Asset Generation with Hunyuan-3D and Blender for Edge AI Datasets (2025-08)
- New Integration: Fully Labeled Synthetic Data for Manufacturing from Vision Datasets (2025-07)
- How to Generate Hours of Synthetic Data in Minutes with MATLAB (2025-04)
- Introducing... Minecraft Synthetic Data Generation (2025-04)
- Automated Articulatory Speech Synthesis for Animation (2025-03)
- Getting Started with Android Studio and Edge Impulse (2025-03)
- AI for Industrial Control Systems: Bringing Edge AI to PLCs (2024-10)
- Heart Rate Analysis: Now Available for All Users For In-Platform Exploration (2024-10)
- Optimize for Any Hardware with These New Edge Impulse Tools (2024-08)
- Announcing IMU and Microphone Support for Seeed’s Grove - Vision AI Module (2023-07)
- ML Announcement - Transformer Support and Import Model (2023-05)
- Automagically Transform Your CSV Files with the CSV Wizard! (2023-03)
- Announcing Support for the Arduino Nicla Voice (2023-02)
Hugging Face — eoinedge↗
PRO @eoinedge
- Domain-tuned retrieval for embedded docs: zephyrproject-docs-embeddings and ros2-docs-embeddings, each paired with a base-vs-tuned comparison Space so the gain is measurable, not asserted.
- Docs assistants with citations — Zephyr RTOS and ROS 2 coding assistants running retrieval over the real documentation.
- Edge AI documentation LoRAs across Qwen2.5-Coder 0.5B / 1.5B / 7B for on-device assistance, plus Arduino + Edge AI combined LoRAs for low-power coding help.
- Wake-word tooling end to end: WakeForge generates TTS wake-word datasets, and hey-android-kws / hey-android-piper-kws are the trained classifiers, each with a live demo Space.
- Irish-dialect LoRA fine-tuning of Qwen2.5 (irish-abc-qwen2-5-lora) with a ZeroGPU Space.
- Public datasets for spark-plug classification and anomaly detection (~3.2k rows combined).
Published to the edgeimpulse org
Published and maintain Edge Impulse's public Hugging Face presence.
- edgeimpulse/hf-space-edge-impulse-mcp space — Edge Impulse MCP tools and agent chat
- edgeimpulse/wasm-demo-tester space — Run any Edge Impulse WebAssembly model live (audio or video)
- edgeimpulse/wakeforge space — Generate wake-word audio datasets with TTS and export them
- edgeimpulse/README space — Organization card
Models
- eoinedge/edgeai-docs-qwen2.5-coder-0.5b-lora text-generation · ↓43
- eoinedge/hey-android-piper-kws audio-classification · ↓30
- eoinedge/zephyrproject-docs-embeddings sentence-similarity · ↓19
- eoinedge/ros2-docs-embeddings sentence-similarity · ↓13
- eoinedge/hey-android-kws audio-classification · ↓11
- eoinedge/EdgeAI-Docs-Qwen2.5-Coder-0.5B-Instruct text-generation · ↓7
- eoinedge/irish-abc-qwen2-5-lora text-generation · ↓4
- eoinedge/arduino-edgeai-qwen-combined-0.5b-lora text-generation · ↓3
Datasets
- eoinedge/spark-plug-anomaly-detection ↓629 · ♥1
- eoinedge/spark-plug-classification ↓485
- eoinedge/wakeforge-hey-android-piper-tts ↓433 · ♥1
- eoinedge/hf_hey_android ↓241
- eoinedge/hey-android ↓28
Spaces
3D printing — Thingiverse↗
@eoinedge — 8 designs, 2 likes.
- Arduino Uno Q Arcade shield
- Edge Impulse and Golioth UnoQ collaboration case
- Arduino Nano BLE 33 Magic Wand Case (Edge Impulse MakerFair25 Rome)
- 120mm Solder Extraction Fan Shroud — Edge AI Demo (Nordic Thingy:91)
- Doubletap dive watch
- Edge Air Quality Monitor
- Sony Spresense case and mounting bracket
- Arduino Nicla Voice and Vision Wearable Case
Projects↗
- Edge Impulse OBD Automotive Data Tutorial
- MLOps with Edge Impulse, Blues and Zephyr (webinar)
- Industrial PLC anomaly detection blog
- Industrial PLC anomaly detection webinar
- MLOps fundamentals course (Edge Impulse docs)
- doom-osm-godmode (OpenStreetMap → DOOM map builder)
- Minecraft Bedrock godmode agentic builder
Skills↗
Edge AIEmbedded ML / TinyMLDeveloper RelationsTechnical DocumentationEmbedded SoftwareQualcomm QNN / Hexagon NPUZephyr RTOSArduinoAndroidROS2MLOpsPythonC / C++JavaSpring BootMicroservicesDocker / Kubernetes / OpenShiftJenkins / CI/CDKafkaAWS3D PrintingIoTAutomotive / OBD / CANIndustrial Automation / PLCMentoring & Public Speaking
Education↗
- National University of Ireland, Galway — MSc Software Engineering 2013 – 2014
- Regis University — MSc Software Engineering 2013 – 2014
- University of Galway / NUI Galway (INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics) — Bachelor of Engineering
Certifications↗
- Zephyr Technical Contributor — The Zephyr Project 2026-01
Honors & awards↗
- Zephyr Project — Technical Contributor — The Zephyr Project (Linux Foundation) 2026
- Edge Impulse becomes an external module in the Zephyr Project — Co-authored with Francesco Varani 2026
- Featured in Harvard open-source TinyML book (3D-printed Edge AI cases) — Harvard / TinyML community 2025
- IEEE publication — Edge-Intelligence-Enabled Smart Sensors — IEEE 2025
- Elektor feature article — Arduino Opta PLC: Dual-System Industrial Hero — Elektor Magazine 2025
- Digital Maker Champion — Galway National Park City 2020
- 2nd Place — Climathon 2017 (Smarter Cities) — IBM (Wipro TUPE) 2017
Volunteering↗
- Mentor at CoderDojo 2012-09 – Present — 3D printing, electronics, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, App Inventor, Scratch.
- Mentor at Junior Achievement Ireland 2010-09 – Present — Teaching at Tirellan Heights National School.