Chris Piekarski
Staff Electrical Engineer at 1X
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Piekarski is a Staff Electrical Engineer in the San Jose Bay Area with 14 years of experience designing power and embedded systems for electric vehicles and eVTOL platforms. He has advanced from infrastructure and building systems to leading power electronics and propulsion work at Wisk and now 1X, authoring high-power wireless charging research and multi-kilowatt EMC and gate-driver experiments. Comfortable across PCB design, MATLAB/Simulink modeling, ARM and TI microcontroller firmware, and FPGA peripherals, he blends hands-on prototyping with system-level thinking. His academic work toward a PhD at NYU Tandon focused on regenerative braking and 25 kW wireless charging — a thread that carries through his industry roles. Colleagues know him for tackling thorny EMI/EMC and high-voltage power challenges that bridge robotics, AI-enabled control, and next-generation air mobility. He brings a future-focused obsession to practical engineering, shipping hardware that anticipates how vehicles and robots will be powered tomorrow.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical Engineering at NYU Tandon School of EngineeringBachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at St Francis Preparatory High School
Polish, Japanese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
depthai10
json9
python9
tensorflow9
message-passing9
deep-learning9
spatial9
wsl28
machine-learning7
api7
embedded7
multiprocessing6
android-emulator6
android6
glob6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chris-piekarski/android-fourteeners
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
chris-piekarski/python-json-socket
Nov 2011 - Jan 2023
Contains a json object message passing server and client
Contributions:3 releases, 49 commits, 2 PRs in 11 years 3 months
messagemessage-passingjsonpassing
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