2025–present · CircuitHub · Production Operator
The factory floor
Designing one board carefully taught me to wonder how thousands get built without ceremony. So I went and worked where that happens: on The Grid, CircuitHub’s factory‑scale robot in Massachusetts that builds circuit boards on demand.
When the robot asks for help
On The Grid, levitating movers carry each board and its parts between machines that print paste, place parts, solder, and inspect, and every board takes its own route. When it stops and needs a person, that is my job: a pick‑and‑place head fault, a routing error, a part placed wrong. I clear it by hand or in software and get the board moving again.
The rest of the floor
Around the robot: programming the Ersa selective solder machine, troubleshooting the jet printers, hand soldering and board washing, receiving kitted parts, and shipping finished boards out the door.
What the bench does not teach
On a bench a board either works or it does not. On a line it has to work every time, at a rate, with a paper trail. That difference is most of what I have learned here, and it has quietly changed how I lay out my own boards.
It shows up in the other work
Every design decision on ClearNote and Mega‑CAN now gets a second question attached: could this be built a thousand times without someone cursing my name. Usually the answer changes the drawing.
Built here · I
Data Matrix, shop‑wide
I own the supplier relationship for our custom nozzle labels and helped the software lead prototype Data Matrix scanning. It is now the standard workflow, replacing QR codes across the line.
Built here · II
A gimbal that holds focus
Our Basler vision cameras were failing on depth of field. I designed a three‑axis gimbal mount that fixed it; it is in use on the line today, and the permanent version is in progress.
