Lara Grant
Senior Design Engineer at Nike
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLara Grant is a Senior Design Engineer in Portland with a decade of hands-on experience blending textiles, wearables, and electronics into production-ready products and educational programs. Currently at Nike, she brings deep expertise in soft circuits, e-textiles, and design-for-manufacture honed through roles as an education manager, lecturer, and contractor for makerspaces and festivals worldwide. Her background spans technical writing, curriculum development, and product prototyping—from NASA-cluster wearable studios to washable LED garments and space-suit patterning—demonstrating rare cross-disciplinary fluency. An author and community educator, she’s contributed to the third edition of Handmade Electronic Music and built curricula that connected students to real-world accessibility and aerospace challenges. Known for soldering as much as sewing, she combines craft-level fabrication skills with systems thinking to move experimental concepts into scalable, documented outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Fashion and Textile Design, BA Fashion and Textile Design at Academy of Art UniversityMPS Interactive Telecommunications Program, MPS Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University
Github Skills (11)
user-manual6
react3
expressjs3
nodejs2
balloon2
php2
javascript2
speech2
google-assistant1
docker-container1
docker1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Project-chip-crumbs/CHIP_Pro-Hardware
Jun 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:32 commits in 4 months
needchip
nextthingco/docs
Mar 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:426 commits in 6 months
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