Jimmy Hack
Development Engineer at First Solar
California, United States
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Top SchoolJimmy Hack is a development engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in photovoltaic R&D, currently advancing interface and absorber technologies at First Solar where his work has contributed to CdTe cell world records and patented innovations. He holds a PhD-level research background in hybrid silicon/organic heterojunctions from the University of Delaware and has hands-on expertise in deposition, device fabrication, and lifetime/doping manipulation techniques. His career spans industry and academia—from postdoctoral perovskite work and NSF-funded internships to building automated measurement systems and lab automation at UC Berkeley—demonstrating both experimental depth and instrumentation/software integration. Based in California, he blends materials science rigor with practical productization, having moved lab-scale concepts toward deployable back-contact and passivation strategies. Less obvious is his longstanding habit of pairing hardware development with custom control and analysis software (LabVIEW, ARM microcontrollers, MATLAB), which accelerates his experimental throughput and reproducibility.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Engineering Physics, BS, Engineering Physics at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (9)
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Github contributions (4)
littlebeast/Enrum
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:10 pushes in 2 days
AlexNisnevich/sentinel
Feb 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 9 months
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