Clark Willison
Senior Electrical Engineer at Saleae, Inc.
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolClark Willison is a Senior Electrical Engineer in Los Angeles with 9 years of hands-on experience designing hardware, firmware, and measurement systems for fast-moving manufacturing environments. He currently applies this expertise at Saleae, Inc., shaping next-generation test and instrumentation, after driving hardware and product engineering leadership roles at Arena/Go Arena and prior work at Stanford Research Systems. As founder and host of BuildLogic AI, he explores real-world challenges and breakthroughs in smarter factories, translating complex tech into actionable strategies for manufacturing leaders. In open source, he’s a notable contributor to the Pint library in Python as a back-end developer and technical writer, fixing formatting quirks, adding a unit-registry check, and documenting features and tests. His career blends hands-on hardware design with leadership across startups and established labs, underscoring a track record of delivering robust hardware, firmware, and documentation at scale. A UC Santa Barbara Electrical Engineering graduate, he brings practical, production-focused problem solving from measurement tools to AI-enabled manufacturing ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Palo Alto High SchoolBachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
formatting10
unitsofmeasurement10
documentations10
units-of-measurement10
text-formatting10
python10
documentation10
testing9
django-admin6
django6
django-authentication6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hgrecco/pint
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Operate and manipulate physical quantities in Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:28 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Clark primarily focused on improving the `pint` library's functionality and documentation. Their work included fixing HTML and pretty-printing issues related to exponents in the formatting of physical quantities. They also introduced a new feature allowing the user to check if a prefixed unit exists within the registry, and added documentation to reflect this new functionality. Furthermore, the user addressed doctest errors and improved contributing guidelines.
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clarkgwillison/merge
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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