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Limor Fried

Engineering, Founders

Limor Fried

Founder & lead engineer

The engineer behind Adafruit, connecting electronics products, open-source learning and New York manufacturing.

Adafruit

About Limor Fried

Limor Fried founded Adafruit in 2005. The company’s public biography identifies her as its founder and lead engineer, involved in developing and selecting electronics products for makers and learners.

Work & commerce

Adafruit combines an online electronics store with educational resources and its own product engineering and manufacturing. It moved to Industry City in Brooklyn in 2024, giving Fried a documented professional connection to NYC’s manufacturing and commerce community.