Rick Levine
Founder at ApparelWerks
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRick Levine is a founder and maker with a decade of hands-on experience building bespoke manufacturing systems that fuse software, hardware modification, and supply-chain control to enable small-batch, highly customized production. He has launched and scaled ventures across textiles and food—pioneering rapid prototyping and patented knitting automation at XOAB and launching one of the first organic, allergen-free chocolate brands with end-to-end certified manufacturing. Rick excels at assessing manufacturing for automation and cost-efficiency, designing facilities from the ground up, and writing software that bridges production gaps. Based in Portland, he blends a craftsman’s sensibility learned from a potter father with product-grade engineering, and is as comfortable modifying knitting machines as he is building MRP and tracking systems. An unapologetic maker (and recovering chocolatier), he brings entrepreneurial grit and deep practical knowledge of turning customized manufacturing ideas into scalable operations.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Communication, Radio-Television-Film, BA, Communication, Radio-Television-Film at Temple University
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Github Skills (53)
image10
inkscape10
stitch10
embroidery10
image-processing9
imaging9
emma9
grass9
decoder8
python8
duke8
bottom8
qualcomm8
nmea8
modem8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rlevine/droplet_video_analyzer
Oct 2020 - Mar 2022
A python program to implement the video analysis techniques described in the paper "Low-cost measurement of facemask efficacy for filtering expelled droplets during speech" by Emma P. Fischer, Martin C. Fischer, David Grass et al, of Duke University.
Contributions:2 reviews, 41 commits, 35 pushes in 1 year 5 months
techniquespythonvideo-analysisemmaduke
inkstitch/inkstitch
Jan 2023 - Jul 2023
Ink/Stitch: an Inkscape extension for machine embroidery design
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 5 months
inkscapemachine-embroideryembroideryinkscape-extensionink
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