Narayan Powderly
Co-CEO at atopile
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNarayan Powderly is a hardware-focused technology leader and entrepreneur with five years of experience designing and delivering battery and electronic systems at Tesla before co-founding and now co-leading atopile in San Francisco. He combines hands-on electronic design and battery systems expertise with startup leadership, moving from senior engineering roles into a Co-CEO/Co-Founder position within a short timeframe. Trained in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation from Swinburne University, Narayan pairs rigorous systems thinking with practical product development in high‑performance, safety‑critical domains. His background supporting research at Monash University adds a research-to-product sensibility that helps bridge prototyping and scalable manufacturing. Known for rapidly translating complex hardware requirements into production-ready solutions, he brings entrepreneurial drive and technical depth to early-stage hardware ventures.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechatronics Robotics and Automation Engineering at Swinburne University of Technology
Github Skills (18)
altium-designer10
eda10
cad10
servo9
dmx5129
open-hardware9
footprint9
freecad8
hardware8
kicad8
schematic7
robot6
jpl5
cadquery5
robotics5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
atopile/ldk220m-r
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 6 PRs in 1 year 1 month
atopile/spin-servo-drive
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
SPIN ✨ - Servos are awesome 🤩. Spin is an open-source hardware project to make it easy and cost effective to use fully-fledged BLDC servo motors 🚀
Contributions:7 reviews, 21 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 year 1 month
electronicsservoservo-motor
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