Jake Read
Graduate Research Assistant
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Read is a multidisciplinary researcher and builder with 12 years of hands-on experience blending architecture, mechanical design, and computational fabrication at institutions like MIT and Princeton. As a Graduate Research Assistant at the MIT Center for Bits and Atoms, he focuses on physical-digital systems and maintains an active code/design presence on the CBA GitLab, reflecting a practice that spans prototyping, tooling, and research software. His background includes teaching, leading student design work, and industrial roles where he developed laser-cutting and CNC tooling, plus a Kickstarter-launch video that helped commercialize a product. Comfortable moving between concept and manufacturing, he pairs design-led thinking with practical machine- and software-enabled fabrication skills. Notably, his trajectory started in architecture and evolved into robotic and inflatable systems design, giving him a rare cross-disciplinary perspective on material, mechanism, and code.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch.), Architecture at University of Waterloo ArchitectureGreat Books, Great Books at University of King's College
Github Skills (20)
arduino-library10
hardware9
arduino9
esp328
firmware8
3d-printing7
3d-printer6
avr5
microcontroller5
32-bit5
visual-studio-code-extension5
uart4
sdn4
atmel4
iot3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
modular-things/modular-things-circuits
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
circuit designs for modular-things
Contributions:9 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
jakeread/tinynets
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
lightweight adaptable networking for distributed embedded computing
Contributions:63 commits in 10 months
networking
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