Blake Billharz
Electronics Consultant at Kaltan Circuit Innovations, LLC
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolBlake Billharz is an electronics consultant and dual BS candidate in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Colorado School of Mines, with 11 years of hands-on experience designing FPGA IP, validating high-frequency PCBs, and optimizing systems for timing, reliability, and maintainability. He leads cross-disciplinary teams—most recently as electrical lead for Mines’ Space Grant Robotics Team and ARIA Lab—translating system-level requirements into testbench-validated hardware and firmware ready for certification. Blake combines practical lab and internship experience at Garmin and AMERGINT with FPGA toolchain expertise (VHDL/Vivado) and RF validation skills, making him comfortable across embedded, robotics, and cloud-adjacent deployment workflows. Outside of coursework he pursues applied geobiology interests and extreme-environment projects, reflecting a curiosity that drives both engineering rigor and creative problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Senior, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Senior at Colorado School of MinesMaynooth University
Github Skills (53)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
MinesGEM/MinesGEM.github.io
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:77 commits, 2 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 month
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bstamps/UPARSE_Workflow
Nov 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 5 commits, 1 push in 3 months
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