Brett Kuhlman
Senior Electrical Design Engineer at Utilidata
Lansing, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolBrett Kuhlman is a Senior Electrical Design Engineer with eight years of experience designing power electronics and grid-edge hardware, currently supporting hardware development for advanced metering at Utilidata in Lansing, Michigan. He has led EMI mitigation and power interface work for high-power wireless EV charging systems and driven cost-saving inverter improvements, reflecting hands-on expertise from prototype through compliance testing. Earlier roles include engineering management and RF resonator project leadership, giving him a blend of technical depth and team-facing delivery skills. Brett also contributes to open-source infrastructure as a back-end/DevOps engineer on the terraform-provider-github project, adding Go-based resources, tests, and documentation that smooth GitHub–Terraform integrations. His background combines practical power-electronics design with software-oriented automation, enabling cross-disciplinary solutions that bridge hardware, firmware, and infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Michigan College of EngineeringMaster of Engineering - MEng, Master of Engineering - MEng at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (10)
terraformer10
go10
github-api10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
api8
api-design8
test-automation7
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
integrations/terraform-provider-github
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Terraform GitHub provider
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:9 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Brett contributed significantly to the `terraform-provider-github` repository. Their work primarily focused on adding and modifying features related to GitHub repository settings, tag protection, and organization settings. The user demonstrated expertise in Terraform configuration and Go language, implementing new resources, updating existing ones, and ensuring proper integration with the GitHub API. The contributions also include adding tests and documentation.
terraformterraform-provider
kuhlman-labs/terraform-azurerm-aks-agic
Jun 2020 - Oct 2022
A Terraform Module to deploy an AKS cluster with an App Gateway Ingress Controller on Azure.
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 4 months
azureingress-controllerterraform-moduleakskubernetes
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