Lucy Chapar
Head Of Manufacturing at Opulo
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLucy Chapar is Head of Manufacturing with eight years of multidisciplinary experience building the bridge between prototyping and scaled production, currently leading manufacturing at Opulo in Pittsburgh. She combines hands-on engineering—designing calibration tools, fixtures, and custom production equipment—with strategic line management, DFM/DFA, and overseas NPI coordination to accelerate product ramp-ups. A maker and designer at heart, she co-founded an open-hardware collective and grew university and community makerspaces, securing significant equipment grants and upgrading shop infrastructure. Her background in both manufacturing engineering and digital media gives her a rare fluency across hardware, tooling, and product storytelling, and she routinely mentors makers while improving safety, governance, and process at the organizational level.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Greenwich HighschoolBachelor’s Degree, Manufacturing Engineering & Management | Digital Media & Design, Bachelor’s Degree, Manufacturing Engineering & Management | Digital Media & Design at University of Connecticut
Github Skills (45)
linux8
freecad8
laravel8
maintenance8
tla8
assembly8
architecture8
openscad7
cnc-controller7
nette7
windows7
cad7
3d7
3d-printer7
3d-models7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
lucian151/SketchyBot
Aug 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:44 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
opulo-inc/ohai
Jan 2023 - Feb 2025
Open Hardware Assembly Instructions for Opulo machines
Contributions:2 PRs, 126 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 1 month
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