Drew Lentz
Co-Founder at Frontera - Connecting Communities
About
I'm CTO of SignalRoam and co-founder of Frontera Consulting and WiFi Stand.
Experiences
- Chief Technology Officer at Signal RoamBuilding Wi-Fi your phone joins with no password
At SignalRoam we tie Passpoint to the carriers, so it sets up on existing access points in about 20 minutes.
- South TexasGrew up on a dirt road in a South Texas colonia
We were the only house with indoor plumbing, and my first Internet was a brown set of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- Co-Founder at WiFi StandWent out on my own, then started making Wi-Fi gear
I built Frontera Consulting, then co-founded WiFi Stand: a laptop-bag-sized mount for quick temporary networks.
- TEDx and tech nonprofitRun TEDx in South Texas and a nonprofit teaching code
I co-founded the largest tech nonprofit in South Texas, teaching computer science to people of all backgrounds and ages.
- Waves with Wireless NerdStarted Wireless Nerd when CTIA showed no innovation
Now it's Waves, my weekly wireless podcast. Getting out of my shell took a while, but people showed up.
- Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon (eero)Brought outdoor Wi-Fi to a tiny Sonoma County town
I set up eero downtown in Occidental for first responders and locals, and along the beach at Trestles.
- Connectivity Solutions at MetaMoved from Meta's open Wi-Fi to Cisco's wireless team
OpenWiFi units deployed grew 1500% a year while I was at Meta. At Cisco I worked on bringing Catalyst into Meraki.
- Sr. Solutions Architect, Wireless at Comcast BusinessConnected all of McAllen in 60 days during the pandemic
24 CBRS base stations and 1,000+ access points for the digital divide. It made me 2020 Connectivity Hero of the Year.