Kseniia Kyrylyshena

Kseniia Kyrylyshena is a Team-lead and production engineer in Ultimate Robotics that develops open-source devices and technologies. Ultimate Robotics has developed its device, uECG - a small wearable device that measures an electrocardiogram (ECG). To create this device, Ultimate Robotics has launched a successful crowdfunding campaign, and then they presented it at the Maker Faire festivals in Prague and Rome, entered the final of the annual worldwide hardware design contest Hackaday Prize.

At Ultimate Robotics, Kseniia deals with a wide range of issues: production organization, logistics, electronics prototyping, strategic planning, and systems design, analysis and research, social networking, customer communication and negotiation, SMM strategy, and design and web development. She can work for hours to achieve the result, no matter what. Kseniia opposes patenting and supports and develops open hardware, as she believes that the future belongs to a society that cooperates rather than competes, a society where everyone can do what they want with no artificial restrictions. She wants to create devices that are not only useful to people but also change their attitude to technology in general and provide them with more capabilities.

Kseniia gained most of her skills and knowledge by herself - first studying at home in primary school, back at the times when no one had heard yet about homeschooling. She graduated as a translator, but already during the university years, she was working as a system administrator, and later, she was working as a freelancer and at some point, started her online store. Kseniia often gathers teams and organizes communities, but she devotes all her free time to quiet and systematic activities such as setting up servers, reading and drawing, or debugging electronic boards. And, of course - video games!