Neil Lakin
Co-Founder Chief Technology Officer at Voltus, Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Lakin is a hardware engineer and full-stack generalist who leads end-to-end IoT initiatives as Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Voltus since 2016. He designs circuits, writes firmware, and builds cloud infrastructure to take concepts from idea to production and scale them globally, with a keen interest in energy and healthcare. Based in Los Angeles, he specializes in delivering low BOM, market-ready products by integrating hardware, firmware, and backend systems. His career includes leadership roles at MindMe and Voltus, consulting as a full-stack hardware engineer, and teaching hardware prototyping at Cornell Tech, reflecting a hands-on, cross-disciplinary approach. He holds a Stanford B.S. in Physics and a Cornell M.Eng. in Computer Science, underscoring a strong foundation in both theory and practical system design. Notably, he has worked on ultra-low-cost BLE mesh networking and distributed sensing for microgrid deployments in developing regions, demonstrating his drive to make IoT both affordable and impactful.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science at Cornell UniversityB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Stanford University
Spanish
Github Skills (56)
sdk10
java9
kotlin9
rickshaw9
android9
graphs8
javascript7
graph7
svg7
xml6
medical6
loader6
sfdx6
xsd6
soap6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nrlakin/WeAreHereBackend
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:62 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
voltusdev/voltusdev.github.io
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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