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    Jon McKay

    Jon McKay

    Director of Product @ Arcadia, Co-founder @ Nanogrid (Acquired), Co-founder @ Technical Machine, Forbes 30u30, Computer Engineer @ Olin College of Engineering

    Software Engineer Brooklyn Franklin W. Olin Coll...
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    Experience
    Join me at Arcadia!
    5 Open Positions · $127k–$314k/yr
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    HC3
    HC3
    Founder, CEO 2016 - 2018 (over 1 year)
    HC3 provides Energy Storage as a Service. We install energy storage in homes and apartments and earn recurring revenue by saving homeowners money and reducing stress on the... more grid.

    HC3 merged with Nanogrid in March, 2018.
    ICEYE
    ICEYE
    Firmware Engineer (Contractor) 2016 (about 1 month)
    Worked as a contractor on power systems firmware for a cube satellite startup in Espoo, Finland.
    3DR
    3DR
    Hardware Product Manager 2015 (6 months)
    Product manager of Hardware Accessories for 3DR's flagship drone: Solo. Evaluated consumer electronics market opportunities, handled customer development, designed system... more architectures and worked through technical trade-offs with engineering team. Managed embedded electronics and soft goods products in conjunction with a team in Shenzhen.
    Technical Machine
    Technical Machine
    Founder, CEO 2013 - 2015 (about 2 years)
    Technical Machine built Tessel, a JavaScript-powered IoT development kit: www.tessel.io.
    I was responsible for fundraising over $1M in Seed Funding, managing $750k in sales... more per year, overseeing over 15 different hardware SKUs, and hiring a team which ultimately grew to 8 wonderful developers. I also contributed to embedded firmware, the command line interface, and the website.
    Hangtime
    Hangtime
    iOS Software Engineer 2012 - 2013 (10 months)
    Microsoft
    Microsoft
    Product Manager 2011 (3 months)
    Arcadia
    Exit
    Arcadia
    Director of Product 2021 - Present (over 5 years)
    The first product person to spin an enterprise SaaS out of the existing business. Helped grow it to tens of millions in revenue in 4 years. Managing a team of 4 other product... more managers now. We take bills and data from utility providers, make it machine readable and actionable so that customers can pay bills on time, find energy efficiency opportunities, or make solar and storage sales proposals.
    Nanogrid
    Nanogrid
    CEO, Co-Founder 2018 - Present (over 8 years)
    Built a general energy simulation engine to run optimization across solar + storage + electric vehicle energy consumption. Built an enterprise SaaS to enable vehicle OEMs... more to build a compelling app first-run experience for EVs that finds the cheapest electricity rate and automatically programs the vehicle to charge at that time.
    Founder
    HC3, Technical Machine
    Employee
    Microsoft, Hangtime, Nanogrid, Arcadia, 3DR, ICEYE
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    Projects
    Tessel 2 CLI
    node.js CLI for the Tessel 2
    Tessel 2 is a development platform you can embed in a product. Build fast with Node.js, then optimize the hardware and build thousands.
    Nicholas van de Walle
    Kwyn Meagher
    Kelsey Breseman
    With Kelsey Breseman, Kwyn Meagher, Nicholas van de Walle
     
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    About
    Achievements

    Forbes 30 under 30 in Energy 2019
    Clean Energy Leadership Institute Fellow 2017

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Embedded C/C++ Javascript Python HTML5 & CSS3 Computer Architecture User Experience Design Full-Stack Web Development (Node/Redux/React) Mandarin Chinese Product Development
    Locations
    Seattle Portland Brooklyn New York City
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