Summary
Jonathan Lesage is an engineering manager who leads a multidisciplinary team responsible for over $50M in software and services across industrial automation, energy, and medical device markets. With 14 years of experience and a Ph.D.-level background in controls and power systems, he combines hands-on expertise in autonomous systems, batteries, microgrids, and model-based design with practical software skills in MATLAB/Simulink, Python, and embedded C. He has authored influential studies on battery monitoring and fault-tolerant control for mobile systems and microgrids, and he routinely translates complex multi-domain problems into deployable HIL and real-time solutions. A passionate teacher and communicator, he excels at presenting technical concepts to both individuals and large audiences and advocates model-based workflows to accelerate engineering decisions. Outside work he pursues broad energy interests from storage and renewables to robotics and even brewing, reflecting a curiosity that informs his cross-disciplinary problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.M.E., Mechanical Engineering, B.S.M.E., Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin