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Name Lucy Moglia
Label Research Engineer
Email eigenlucy@proton.me
Summary Electrical engineer with robust experience in full-stack electronics development, product development, and technical research. Proven ability to manage complex projects from concept to completion. Highly self-motivated, versatile. Experienced in embedded development, PCB design, prototype development/evaluation, reverse engineering, and technical writing.
Location SF/CDMX

Work

  • 2025.01 - Present
    CTO
    Mithras
    System design and integration, PCB and firmware design, prototype direction, hardware budgeting and scoping, sensor selection.
    • System design and integration
    • PCB and firmware design
    • Prototype direction and hardware budgeting
    • Sensor selection and scoping
  • 2024.10 - Present
    Hardware Consultant
    Self Employed Hardware Consultant
    PCB design, rapid prototyping, embedded development, RF performance testing, and consulting for startups in the Bay Area.
  • 2023.04 - 2024.08
    Research Engineering
    Kyocera-AVX
    Performed teardowns on behalf of market research and engineering teams. Reverse engineered systems to produce schematics/models for engineering teams. Researched application areas and products and evaluated fitness of prototype components in target areas. Produced PCBs and demo boards for internal use by engineering staff in prototype evaluation and characterization.
    • Performed teardowns on behalf of market research and engineering teams
    • Reverse engineered systems to produce schematics/models for engineering teams
    • Researched application areas and evaluated fitness of prototype components in target areas
    • Produced PCBs and demo boards for internal use by engineering staff in prototype evaluation and characterization
  • 2022.10 - 2023.05
    Cofounder
    Machinic Garden LLC
    Small scale production of electronics kits, 3D printing, vinyl printing, laser cutting, and manufacturing service. Designed hardware/software and produced a variety of products, such as guitar pedal kits and laser drivers. Small scale manufacturing, including various forms of 3D printing, CNC machining, electroplating, and wood working.
    • Designed hardware/software and produced a variety of products, such as guitar pedal kits and laser drivers
    • Small scale manufacturing, including various forms of 3D printing, CNC machining, electroplating, and wood working
    • Managed storefronts and order processing for an array of products
  • 2022.05 - 2023.02
    Electronics Lab Technician
    Electrolux
    Assisted engineers in PCB and firmware development and validation, built EOL testers, performed IEC testing, performed firmware testing with LabVIEW, NI embedded PCs and custom Arduino based test hardware.
    • Assisted engineers in PCB and firmware development and validation
    • Built EOL testers
    • Performed IEC testing
    • Performed firmware testing with LabVIEW, NI embedded PCs and custom Arduino based test hardware

Volunteer

  • 2020.05 - Present
    Volunteer
    Cleo Bailey Experiment
    Community garden project in Anderson, SC. Provides food to local food banks, hosts community events, and actively working on renovations with the hope to host many additional resources
    • 501c nonprofit organization. https://www.cleobailey.org/
    • Coordinated with university student organizations and community groups to organize volunteer efforts and plan events.
    • Managed and participated in the planning and construction of a wide array of construction, renovation, and gardening projects.
    • Assorted gardening, farm work, construction, and fabrication work
    • Assisted in the design and implementation of an array of low-cost, experimental construction and gardening methods, such as 'DIY' irrigation systems made from PVC pipes and low-cost rainwater collection/distribution systems.

Awards

  • 2026.03.01
    Platform Co-Director, Mind Ex Vivo Accelerator
    Neuromorph
  • 2024.11.01
    Atopile Research Fellow
    Atopile, San Francisco, CA
    Developing BLE geolocators, Meshtastic radios, flight controllers, home assistant control panels, solar chargers, and more with the atopile toolchain. Developing open-source projects for sale in small batches on platforms like Tindie with atopile, such as Linux Meshtastic solar charger hats.
  • 2024.06.14
    OpenSauce 2025 Exhibitor
    San Mateo, California
    OpenSauce, year two. This time we presented 'Richard Nixon's Head in a Jar', an interactive animatronic Nixon robot with silicone skin plugged into a fine tuned LLM and voice model.
  • 2024.06.14
    OpenSauce 2024 Exhibitor
    Daly City, California
    An event for engineers, student groups, open source developers, makers, and startups to exhibit something they've been working on. You hear my application on the Safety Third podcast here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeMPYlnSd-g&t=5884s

Skills

Plasma physics/high voltage
Solid-state Tesla coil design/construction
Inductively coupled plasma, RF plasma
Marx generator design/construction
HV converter design (flyback, ZVS, LLC, Hbridge)
HV interlock design
Transient simulation and isolation in HV systems
High power waveguide design and simulation
Electrical Engineering
Circuit Design
PDN Analysis
PCB Antenna/Filter Design
Failure Mode Analysis
Equipment Design/Construction
PCB Design
PCB Assembly
IEC Compliance Testing
Functional Testing/Debugging
Prototype Evaluation
SPICE Modeling
Full-Stack Embedded Development
C, C++, Arduino, Micropython Firmware Development
Circuit Design, PCB Design/CAD Design
Instrumentation/Test Hardware Design
Rapid Prototyping
STM8/32, ATMega/ATTiny, ESP8266/ESP32, RP2040, SAMD21/51, Teensy, PIC
Debugging/Performance Analysis
Manufacturing
3D Printing (FDM, SLA/mSLA, SLS)
Direct laser writing and electrode patterning for biosensor and MEA fabrication
Electroplating, electrodeposition, laser induced deposition
General fabrication
Light hand/CNC machining
Research Engineering
Teardowns
Technical Report Composition
Market Research
Reverse Engineering
Prototype Evaluation

Languages

English, C/C++, Python, HTML, Javascript

Interests

Mesh networks (OpenWRT, LoRaWAN, BLE Mesh, Reticulum)
Solar converters
High Energy Physics/Plasma Physics/High Voltage
Artificial Olfaction
Mycology
Applied ML for robotics
RF engineering
Wireless Power Transfer
Open-source hardware
Low cost, open source microelectrode arrays
DIYBIO
DIY weather and radiological surveying with high altitude balloons
Small Scale Manufacturing (3D Printing, CNC Milling, Laser/Plasma Cutting, Etc.)
Open Source/Low Cost Lab Equipment
Artificial olfaction
Sensor design
Agent memory and orchestration
Control Theory
Enactivism
Machine learning
Biosystems, biosensing
Maskless microelectrode array fabrication for low cost cultured neuron signal acquisition headstages
Mushroom Cultivation
DIY TDCS/TEMS based on Howland Current pump
Spore and Phage Culturing on Agar
Fungal network mapping with diy EEG hardware
Mushroom Identification
Biosensor fabrication with laser induced graphene

References

Mark Hansen, Cofounder at Mithras
mark@mithras.industries
Zephaniah Smith, Founder at The Cleo Bailey Experiment
1-(704)-439-6308
Julian Wilson, Market Research Engineer II at Kyocera-AVX
1-678-923-3100

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