Ryan Rutledge
Senior PCB Design Engineer at Echodyne
Marysville, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Rutledge is a Senior PCB Design Engineer with two decades in electronics and 13 years of focused hands-on experience designing RF and mmWave PCBs, productizing hardware, and mentoring teams. He is an expert Altium Designer user and ECAD workflow owner who has created hundreds of practical tooling improvements—authoring scripts like QuickSilk and ReturnViaCheck that improved design quality and inspired vendor features. Ryan combines deep EMC troubleshooting and manufacturing experience with LabVIEW test automation and frequent factory visits, enabling designs that ship reliably without costly layout re-spins. Comfortable as a sole design owner or a remote collaborator, he has driven 60+ advanced RF boards and helped startups go from prototype to production. Based in Marysville, WA, he contributes to the Altium community with add-ons that fix edge cases and enhance usability, reflecting a pragmatic, tooling-first approach to hardware engineering.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
AAS, Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology, AAS, Computer and Electronics Engineering Technology at ITT Technical InstituteBS, Engineering Technology - Electronics, BS, Engineering Technology - Electronics at DeVry University
Github Skills (21)
delphix10
javascript10
python10
scripting10
delphi10
user-interface10
stable-diffusion10
graphical-user-interface10
implement10
human-interface10
webui10
image-generation10
generative-art10
reimplementation10
ui-design9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Altium-Designer-addons/scripts-libraries
Feb 2013 - Nov 2022
Set of community add-ons for Altium Designer
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 117 commits, 237 PRs in 9 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan's primary contributions focused on enhancing and refining Altium Designer add-ons. They fixed bugs related to mirrored designators, updated and added features to the fillet script to support any-angle tracks and configurable presets, and modified the distribute script to address error messages and add track trimming. Further modifications included improvements to the user interface and addressing edge cases for improved usability.
scriptingadd-onsazerothcoredesignerfootprint
RnDMonkey/scripts-libraries
Sep 2018 - Aug 2022
Easy 1 zip/script download at the linked Google Drive
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 11 months
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