Joshua Illes
Hardware Engineering Manager at Device Solutions Inc
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
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Top SchoolJoshua Illes is a hardware engineering manager with 11 years of hands-on experience designing embedded electronics, firmware, and producible systems across aerospace, lab equipment, and consumer hardware. He blends technical depth—PCB design, Cortex-M firmware (bare metal and FreeRTOS), and test-fixture development—with pragmatic leadership, having led cross-disciplinary teams from concept through production and sustaining engineering. At NASA he worked on space-grade motor drives and instrumentation, and in industry he drove next-generation safety controllers that improved manufacturability and reduced costs. Known for staying current with technology, he remains a hands-on leader who enjoys coding, prototyping, and teaching production and service teams new systems. Based in the Raleigh-Durham area, he brings a rare mix of space-program rigor and product-focused pragmatism to commercial hardware development.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lakewood Ranch High SchoolBachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Engineering at University of Central Florida
Github Skills (53)
vscode10
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vscode-extension9
visual-studio9
python8
gitlab8
tasmota8
kicad7
devops7
cookbook7
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jtilles/coursera-introduction-embedded-systems-software-and-development-environments
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Contains my courseware for the Introduction to Embedded Systems Software and Development Environments by University of Colorado Boulder taught on Coursera
Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 months
university-of-coloradocoursewarecoloradobouldermicrocontroller
jtilles/jtilles.github.io
Aug 2020 - Jul 2022
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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