Evan Peairs
Electrical Engineer at Joby Aviation
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolEvan Peairs is an electrical engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of hands-on experience applying physics and systems thinking to advanced aerospace and research settings. Currently at Joby Aviation, he brings practical expertise in electrical systems design informed by prior roles in experimental research and engineering at Otherlab and the Reed Research Reactor. His Reed College physics background includes a distinctive senior thesis that automated bell fabrication from target acoustic signatures, reflecting a rare blend of acoustics, mechanical design, and algorithmic thinking. Evan’s experience ranges from reactor operations and neutron activation analysis to robotics-adjacent hardware development and Python-based data analysis for fluid dynamics experiments. He combines rigorous safety and certification discipline with a creative approach to optimization and bio-inspired algorithms, often prototyping parts in SolidWorks and machining them for experimental validation. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs experimental rigor with an ear for unusual interdisciplinary opportunities.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics at Reed College
Github Skills (2)
optimization5
python5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
evanprs/thesis
Mar 2016 - Nov 2018
automated creativity! engineering new instruments using optimization algorithms
Contributions:63 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
optimizationpythonengineeringoptimization-algorithms
dborrero/Reed-Taylor-Couette
May 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:123 pushes in 6 months
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