Summary
Madison Chodikov is an electrical engineer with three years of hands-on experience designing and testing power and control systems across utilities, defense, and electronics product development. Currently an Electric Area Engineer at Xcel Energy, she brings field-focused operational insight combined with prior roles building control tubs for switchgear and developing test boards to decouple and accelerate power-electronics integration. Comfortable moving between PCB layout, firmware testing in Python and C++, and hardware characterization, she has shipped both commercial products at SparkFun and validation infrastructure at Epirus. Her background includes aerospace-grade work on lunar communication boards and high-voltage soft-robotics research, reflecting a knack for applying classroom skills to ambitious, real-world projects. Based in Denver with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from CU Boulder, she’s pragmatic about cost- and time-saving test strategies and happy to share a resume on request.
3 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder