Ian O'hara
Self Employed
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIan O'hara is a robotics and mechatronics engineer with 13 years of experience designing and delivering complex electromechanical systems, currently consulting for Bay Area companies. He led Neuralink’s robotics organization from hands-on electrical and software design to VP-level leadership, owning the end-to-end “parking to parking lot” clinical implant experience and scaling teams across machine shop, clinical, and software functions. Ian combines deep technical fluency in electronic and mechatronic design with practical surgical and clinical logistics expertise that most robotics engineers don’t have. He holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and cut his teeth at robotics-focused organizations including Willow Garage and Transcriptic. Now self-employed, he helps startups and teams bridge prototype hardware to production-ready systems while keeping one foot in high-risk medical device development.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (8)
jackson8
json7
testing6
scala6
python5
json-parser4
quantities2
api2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Cephla-Lab/Squid
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:55 reviews, 113 PRs, 270 pushes in 5 months
ianohara/dynamics
Aug 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 3 months
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