Max Holliday
CEO & Co-Founder at EarthTraq Corporation
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMax Holliday is a CEO and co-founder who designs and ships turn-key satellite systems, having built hardware, firmware, and software subsystems for eight small spacecraft currently on-orbit. With a Stanford PhD focused on mitigating radiation effects in commercial electronics, he bridges deep materials and microelectronics expertise with hands-on embedded engineering for harsh environments. He led the PY4 four-spacecraft mission at NASA Ames and previously directed research at Sandia, combining leadership of multidisciplinary teams with individual technical contributions. An active open-source maintainer of PyCubed and contributor to Adafruit's CircuitPython hardware support, he helps make satellite-grade tooling accessible to industry and hobbyists alike. Based in San Francisco, he brings eight years of operational experience in space systems and a rare blend of academic rigor and product-focused execution.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Materials Engineering at New Mexico Institute of Mining and TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science / Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science / Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Github Skills (13)
firmware10
adafruit-circuit-python10
embedded10
abstraction10
abstraction-layer10
microcontroller10
py10
sys10
samd5110
c119
c179
gpio9
python8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
adafruit/circuitpython
Feb 2019 - Aug 2022
CircuitPython - a Python implementation for teaching coding with microcontrollers
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 7 PRs, 39 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Max's contributions primarily involve adding support for new hardware boards to the CircuitPython project. They added board definitions, including pin mappings and configurations, for the SAM32 and PyCubed boards, which utilize microcontrollers and are relevant to embedded systems. The user also addressed related issues, such as correcting USB identifiers and adjusting build configurations to include the new boards in the build process. Furthermore, they updated existing board definitions, for example, for the Kicksat-Sprite.
microcontrollerpythoncircuitpythonmicropythonembedded
pycubed/hardware
Jul 2019 - Jan 2022
Pycubed PC104 layout design files
Contributions:56 commits, 7 PRs, 52 pushes in 2 years 6 months
schematicclient-sideedalayoutplacement
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