Wilder Buchanan
Co-Founder At Wake Energy at Hardware Is Hard
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolWilder Buchanan is a mechanical engineer and hardware-focused founder with eight years of experience designing and scaling physical products and teams from prototype to production. Based in Los Angeles, he co-founded Wake Energy and Hardware Is Hard to build community and resources for mechanical engineers while bringing hands-on experience from roles at Anduril and internships at Tesla and Cover Technologies. He has deep expertise in vehicle and rotordynamics systems—demonstrated by Formula SAE leadership and flywheel energy storage research at UC Berkeley—and a track record of standardizing CAD/PDM workflows to speed delivery. Wilder combines product-minded engineering with community-building: he founded robotics programs and a regional FTC league that expanded STEM access across school districts. Colleagues know him for tackling the hardest parts of hardware development—manufacturing, integration, and supply chain coordination—while keeping design lightweight and manufacturable.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S.E. Mechanical Engineering, B.S.E. Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Berkeleythe Willows Community SchoolLoyola High School of Los AngelesGithub contributions (5)
wilderbuchanan/job-board
Feb 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:978 pushes in 2 years 2 months
wilderbuchanan/compton_inglewood_league
Aug 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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