Kipp Bradford
Advisor & Consultant at Harvard University
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKipp Bradford is an inventor, design engineer, and innovation strategist with 12+ years of startup and academic experience building category-defining thermal systems and consumer products. As co-founder and former CTO/CIO of Gradient he brought core IP, provisional patents and hands-on expertise across mechanical, thermal, electrical, and controls design to commercialize a user-installable heat pump architecture. He teaches in Harvard’s Masters of Design Engineering, was a Presidential Fellow at Princeton, and has held research roles at MIT Media Lab and Yale, where his work blends biology, ecology and thermodynamics to rethink climate control from personal comfort to large-scale systems. Kipp also leads open hardware and maker initiatives—founding kippkitts, co-founding Nation of Makers, and serving on multiple nonprofit and foundation boards—bringing deep supply-chain and manufacturing knowledge to early-stage ventures. He advises Gradient’s leadership on product-market fit, policy, and IP strategy while continuing to invent practical hardware solutions informed by cross-disciplinary research.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Sc.B and Sc.M, Biomedical Engineering, Sc.B and Sc.M, Biomedical Engineering at Brown UniversityProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kippkitts/3PhaseScanning
Feb 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:24 commits in 11 days
kippkitts/DataSensingLab
Sep 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:21 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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