Stephen Hawes
Founder And CEO at Opulo
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStephen Hawes is a founder-CEO and hardware-focused engineer with 11 years of experience building electromechanical products and manufacturing tooling from concept to production. As CEO of Opulo he leads development of the open-source LumenPnP pick-and-place machine, while contributing DevOps improvements and CI/CD tooling directly in the project repository. His background blends hands-on electrical engineering at Formlabs, machine-vision automation for industrial inspection, and rapid prototyping as a creative technologist, giving him fluency across mechanical, electrical, and software domains. Based in Pittsburgh, he also creates technical content on YouTube, translating complex hardware workflows into accessible projects. Colleagues would note his pragmatic approach—“when in doubt, connectorize”—and a tendency to streamline builds and BOM workflows to reduce friction between design and manufacture.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) Mechanical Engineering at University of ConnecticutRHAM High School
Github Skills (6)
github-ci10
githubaction-workflow10
python10
cicd10
build-automation9
freecad7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
opulo-inc/lumenpnp
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
The LumenPnP is an open source pick and place machine.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:23 releases, 3 reviews, 58 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Stephen primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipelines and build processes within the repository. They updated scripts related to exporting components and BOMs, ensuring they correctly reference the project's new name. Furthermore, the user modified the build process by removing checks, likely for testing, and integrated hardware (PCB) related changes. The user also merged branches, showing involvement in maintaining the repository's code structure.
placepickpick-and-place
opulo-inc/feeder
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Source for LumenPnP Feeders
Contributions:1 release, 27 commits, 2 PRs in 5 months
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