Clark Willison
Owner at Saleae, Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolClark Willison is an electrical engineer-turned-founder with nine years of professional experience building hardware and AI-enabled systems for manufacturing and test equipment. He currently runs BuildLogic AI, deploying custom AI to help SMBs optimize factory operations and supply chains, and hosts a podcast that spotlights manufacturing leaders and real-world innovation. Clark has held senior engineering and product leadership roles at ARENA and Saleae and contributed to scientific instrumentation at Stanford Research Systems, blending hands-on board and firmware design with production ramp expertise. A practical open-source contributor, he improved functionality and docs for the widely used pint Python library, showing attention to developer experience as well as hardware. Based in Los Angeles with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UC Santa Barbara, he combines deep hardware chops with a growing focus on applied AI for the factory floor.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Palo Alto High SchoolBachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
formatting10
units-of-measurement10
text-formatting10
python10
documentation10
testing9
django-admin6
django6
django-authentication6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hgrecco/pint
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Operate and manipulate physical quantities in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:28 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Clark primarily focused on improving the `pint` library's functionality and documentation. Their work included fixing HTML and pretty-printing issues related to exponents in the formatting of physical quantities. They also introduced a new feature allowing the user to check if a prefixed unit exists within the registry, and added documentation to reflect this new functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed doctest errors and improved contributing guidelines.
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clarkgwillison/merge
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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