Charlie Nitschelm
Co-Founder at Uplift Microhome
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCharlie Nitschelm is an engineering leader and founder with eight years of experience designing high-volume hardware systems and bringing ambitious manufacturing concepts to market. At SpaceX he led design and production work on Starlink hardware, translating aerospace requirements into scalable manufacturing processes. He now co-founded Uplift Microhome to industrialize fully assembled, utility-independent homes that ship like freight, demonstrating a rare blend of spacecraft-grade engineering with productized, logistics-first thinking. His background spans propulsion and materials research, factory optimization at Rocket Lab, and hands-on test work at NIST, reflecting deep expertise in manufacturing, materials, and systems integration. Comfortable moving between lab, factory, and field deployment, he combines technical rigor with a founder’s focus on end-to-end producibility. Based in Boston and entering MIT LGO, he’s uniquely positioned to apply aerospace production discipline to reinvent how housing is built and moved.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
LGO - M.S. | MBA, Mechanical Engineering, LGO - M.S. | MBA, Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of New Hampshire
English, Spanish
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cjn1012/Charlie
Aug 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:265 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Maeswoon/UNHSEDS
Jun 2018 - Jun 2021
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Contributions:509 commits, 408 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 1 month
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