Scott Swaaley
Founder & CEO at Project Invent
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Swaaley is a customer-focused founder and CEO based in California with over 15 years of hands-on experience in industrial shops, machine operator training, and controls engineering. He built MAKESafe Tools from concept to market, developing prototypes and pursuing patents for makerspace machine safety equipment born from his work at GRITLab. His background blends electrical engineering and renewable energy consulting with classroom-centered innovation, having led fabrication and design curricula for K–12 programs and managed multi-disciplinary I-Lab teams. Scott combines practical shop-floor expertise—designing and operating manufacturing equipment—with systems-level project management for large commercial and campus installations. A persistent maker and educator, he also created open-source tooling for mechanical design (pulleygenerator.us) and translates pedagogical theory into product solutions that improve safety and learning.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Github Skills (21)
artificial-intelligence9
python9
ai9
openai9
home-assistant7
autonomous-agents7
iot7
home-automation7
raspberry-pi7
automation6
privacy6
mqtt6
asyncio5
ftp4
sftp3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scottswaaley/TimingPulleyGenerator
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:29 commits, 27 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
scottswaaley/esphome-firmware
Jun 2024 - Jul 2024
Holds firmware configuration files for projects that the ESPHome team provides.
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes in 25 days
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