Leif Percifield
Director Of Product at Freelance
Reno, Nevada, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLeif Percifield is a multidisciplinary product and hardware leader with 14 years of experience designing, prototyping, and bringing connected products to market. Currently Director of Product at Emergence and a senior engineering consultant, he has led hardware engineering teams (GMV Syncromatics) and co-founded product startups (5volt Labs, Visualight) that blend open-source IoT, embedded systems, and industrial manufacturing. His work spans civic sensing (DontFlush.Me real-time water pollution alerts), wearable/audio projects for large partners like Google, and consumer networked lighting—demonstrating a knack for turning experimental designs from MFA-level research into reliable, scalable products. Equally comfortable in a lab or on a factory floor, he leverages design-and-technology training from Parsons and early scientific development experience at Los Alamos to solve interdisciplinary engineering challenges. Known for shipping both playful prototypes and production systems, he brings creative curiosity and operational rigor to complex hardware-software products.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Media Arts, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Media Arts at New Mexico Highlands UniversityMaster of Fine Arts (MFA), Design and Technology, Master of Fine Arts (MFA), Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design
Github Skills (68)
ubuntu9
bluepill8
iso8
wsl28
image8
cordova8
sd-card8
u-boot7
firmware7
accelerometer7
debian7
operating-system7
ionic7
debian-linux7
attiny7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenHAK/OHAK_firmware
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:25 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 11 months
place
lpercifield/RpiSpiTest
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:337 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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