DavidĀ Vandenbout
Apex, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Vandenbout is an experienced electronics engineer and entrepreneur with a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering and over three decades of industry and academic work spanning Bell Labs, NC State's ECE faculty, and founding XESS Corp. He specializes in digital and analog circuit design, FPGAs, embedded systems, and neural-network/AI applications, marrying deep hardware expertise with practical software tooling. As owner of XESS for 21 years he brought products and services to market, and continues to support customers via maintained open-source repositories such as SKiDL, a Python extension for electronic circuit design to which he contributed XSPICE integration and significant refactoring. Based in Apex, NC, he blends research-grade rigor with hands-on development and a knack for sustaining legacy systems and community-facing engineering assets.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering, PhD, Electrical & Computer Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityMSEE, Electrical Engineering, MSEE, Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (8)
ec10
schematic10
el10
python10
kicad10
eda10
api-design8
documentation7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
devbisme/skidl
Aug 2016 - Jul 2021
SKiDL is a library that lets you design electronic circuits using Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 32 PRs, 302 pushes in 5 years
Contributions summary:David primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the SKiDL Python module for electronic circuit design. Their work included adding new contributors, merging branches, and modifying documentation related to the API. They also made significant changes to the code, implementing XSPICE capabilities for SPICE simulations and setting unconnected XSPICE ports to NULL. Furthermore, the user refactored code, improved formatting, and restructured logging functions to enhance the module's functionality and maintainability.
pythonkicadedaelectronicsschematics
xesscorp/StickIt
Jan 2012 - Apr 2014
Contributions:83 commits, 2 pushes, 3 comments in 2 years 3 months
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