James Nee
Founder at Vivant Cycleworks
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Nee is a founder and mechanical engineer with 13 years of experience designing hardware for autonomous vehicles, last-mile delivery robots, and sustainable transportation. Based in California, he has shipped sensor and vehicle systems at Kodiak Robotics, Nuro, and Cruise, and now channels his passion for green mobility into Vivant Cycleworks building American-tailored cargo e-bikes. His background spans hands-on fabrication and manufacturing improvements to systems-level vehicle dynamics and sensor integration, reflecting both shop-floor skills and product development leadership. Notably, he blends motorsport enthusiasm with practical engineering—optimizing torque-dense motors and modular suspension rigs earlier in his career—which informs his focus on efficient, high-performance transport solutions.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Mechanical Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Chinese, French
Github Skills (7)
dfu8
backend7
qmk-firmware7
macos4
avr4
qmk3
atmel3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
therightnee/FlyOlinFly
Jan 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:88 commits in 10 months
therightnee/RainbowReader_MKII
Jan 2014 - Mar 2021
This is a backend redesign of the previous RainbowReader site. It has been optimized for speed.
Contributions:90 commits, 11 PRs, 141 pushes in 7 years 3 months
backend
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