Seth Hillbrand
Lead Developer at KiCad Services Corporation
Long Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolSeth Hillbrand is a lead developer and design engineer with two decades of experience building electronic systems and guiding cross-functional teams to deliver on tight budgets and timelines. He leads development for the KiCad EDA project and chairs the open-source hardware devroom at FOSDEM, blending hands-on engineering with community stewardship. His background spans academic research (including autonomous, balloon-borne observation platforms and telescope control systems) and industry roles from electronic warfare in the USMC to high-frequency trading software, giving him rare depth across hardware, firmware, and software. He is skilled at translating research goals into automated, production-ready systems and has a track record of integrating telemetry, data management, and control electronics across multi-institution projects. Based in Long Beach, CA, he leverages his PhD-level physics training and economics/public policy background to solve complex technical and organizational problems. Notably, he combines open-source leadership with practical product delivery, driving KiCad forward while still engaging in hands-on circuit and systems design.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Physics, Master of Philosophy (MPhil), Physics at Columbia University in the City of New YorkDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at Columbia UniversityAB, Economics, AB, Economics at University of Chicago
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Github Skills (137)
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Github contributions (5)
sethhillbrand/kicad-packages3D
Nov 2017 - Nov 2021
Unofficial mirror of KiCad 3D models. This repository's files are losslessly shrunk (not compressed) to 2.5GB from 4.3GB. Model content is identical.
Contributions:1 PR, 11 pushes in 4 years
3d-modelskicadopenscad3d-printinggcode
sethhillbrand/kicad-source-mirror
Nov 2016 - May 2019
A mirror of the kicad source that includes various test projects for inclusion in the KiCad Project
Contributions:31 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 6 months
kicad
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