Oscar Frías
Roboticist - Mechanical Engineering Manager at RAI Institute
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOscar Frías is a mechanical engineering manager and roboticist with nine years of hands-on experience designing electromechanical systems and bringing hardware products from concept to market. He’s led teams at Formlabs and Pensa, where he drove R&D for desktop CNC wire-bending machines and optimized designs to reduce labor and manufacturing costs while expanding product capabilities. Comfortable across prototyping, CNC and composite fabrication, DFMEA/DFM processes, and human factors, Oscar blends deep technical craft with cross-functional coordination between software, manufacturing, and vendors. Mexican-born and Brooklyn-transplanted, he pairs maker instincts (Arduinos, Processing, Python) with formal product development training from Carnegie Mellon to deliver pragmatic, user-focused robotics. Now based in Somerville, he’s building the next generation of intelligent robots at RAI Institute while mentoring teams and instituting engineering best practices.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Mechanical Engineering at Universidad Iberoamericana, Ciudad de MéxicoMaster of Product Development, Master of Product Development at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (15)
maze6
serial-port6
depth4
applet4
cli4
recursive4
grid2
convert2
pdf2
java2
on-the-fly2
png2
markdown2
jpeg1
commonmark1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
frivolas/TinyTerm
Sep 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 releases, 33 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 10 months
serialtinygserial-portterminalcli
frivolas/MazeRunner
Aug 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 2 months
depthrecursivepaintsjavamaze
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