Eric Essen — CTO at iFixit

About Eric Essen

Eric Essen is CTO at iFixit. Location: Arroyo Grande, California, United States.

Inventor, Tool Designer, Manufacturing Liaison, Product Manager, Sourcing Expert, Sales Professional, Business Development, Mechanic, Facilities Maintenance Ninja, and Autodidact.

Skills

Manufacturing
Product Management
Technical Writing

Additional experience

Product Manager
iFixit
June 2010 – September 2013

Current role

Title: CTO
Company: iFixit
Location: Arroyo Grande, California, United States
Started: September 2013

About iFixit

iFixit is a global community of people helping each other repair things. Our site hosts 100,000+ free repair manuals for all kinds of stuff written by staff, students, and community members. We want to empower everyone to fix every thing. Leading manufacturers trust us for DIY repair service support like understanding and improving product repairability, building self-service repair ecosystems, distributing parts to customers, writing top-notch repair documentation, and much more. Part of our mission is making sure repair is accessible to everyone, which means we're fierce advocates for the Right to Repair—laws that ensure anyone can get the parts, tools, and documentation they need to fix their stuff. We're also ardent supporters of independent repair professionals and businesses. iFixit Pro connects repair pros with quality parts and tools at prices that make sense for them. And we're working on training the next generation of fixers through the iFixit Pro Repair Academy. iFixit EDU and the iFixit Foundation focus on teaching technical writing skills to the next generation of fixers, tinkerers, and engineers. We cover a lot of ground in pursuit of our mission, and we're always looking for people to join us. Whether you're an OEM, retailer, professor, repair professional, or anyone else who wants to be part of our movement, get in touch.

Industry: IT Services and IT Consulting
Company size: 51-200
Website: ifixit.com