Brad Collette
Founder Chief Technology Officer at WetPaint Designs
Ashland, Missouri, United States
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Brad Collette is a founder and CTO with over a decade and a half of entrepreneurial and engineering experience, currently leading development of an open-source–centric CAD/CAM/CNC platform at Ondsel Inc. He combines hands-on software development with product leadership born from founding roles at Maker Redux and running WetPaint Designs since 2009, translating maker-market needs into production-ready tooling. Based in Ashland, Missouri, he focuses on accessible, practical solutions for the engineering community and has a track record of bridging hardware workflows and software ecosystems. Notably, his work emphasizes leveraging open technologies to democratize CNC tooling, reflecting both technical depth and a user-first, maker-oriented perspective.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (198)
fastapi10
python10
bug-tracker10
json-schema10
windows10
freecad10
swagger10
3d10
pydantic10
backend10
openapi10
git-repo10
qt10
async10
architecture10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sliptonic/FreeCAD
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Private copy of FreeCAD/FreeCAD. Working mostly on Path/CNC workbench
Contributions:48 commits, 15 PRs, 1035 pushes in 4 years
freecadworkbenchpathcnc
sliptonic/cnctorture
Mar 2019 - Feb 2021
Test files for CNC/CAM development, testing, and bug reporting
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 141 pushes in 1 year 11 months
reportingbug-reportingtestingcamtest-files
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