Neil Lakin
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer at Voltus, Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNeil Lakin is a hardware engineer and full‑stack generalist with 11 years of experience building end-to-end IoT systems and leading technical teams as Co-Founder and CTO of Voltus. He designs circuits, writes firmware, and architects cloud infrastructure to take connected products from concept to production, with a particular focus on energy and healthcare applications. Neil has a track record of shipping cost-sensitive hardware for developing markets—pushing for minimal bill of materials without sacrificing functionality. His background spans embedded firmware for industrial control, mesh networking for distributed sensing, and academic work at Cornell studying mobile and connected health technologies. He blends hands-on engineering with teaching and open research, having taught hardware prototyping and maintained research SDKs. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a physics foundation from Stanford with an M.Eng. in Computer Science from Cornell to bridge hardware, software, and systems thinking.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Computer Science at Cornell UniversityB.S., Physics, B.S., Physics at Stanford University
Spanish
Github Skills (50)
sdk10
java9
kotlin9
rickshaw9
android9
javascript7
graph7
svg7
xml6
medical6
loader6
sfdx6
xsd6
soap6
charts6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nrlakin/WeAreHereBackend
Nov 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:62 commits, 8 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
voltusdev/voltusdev.github.io
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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