Ian O'Hara
Summary
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SeniorIan O'hara is a robotics and mechatronics engineer with 13 years of experience designing and delivering complex electromechanical systems, currently consulting for Bay Area companies. He led Neuralink’s robotics organization from hands-on electrical and software design to VP-level leadership, owning the end-to-end “parking to parking lot” clinical implant experience and scaling teams across machine shop, clinical, and software functions. Ian combines deep technical fluency in electronic and mechatronic design with practical surgical and clinical logistics expertise that most robotics engineers don’t have. He holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and cut his teeth at robotics-focused organizations including Willow Garage and Transcriptic. Now self-employed, he helps startups and teams bridge prototype hardware to production-ready systems while keeping one foot in high-risk medical device development.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
jackson7
json6
zarr6
scala6
testing5
python5
json-parser4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ianohara/dynamics
Aug 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 3 months
ianohara/linux-rt-examples
Feb 2013 - May 2013
Contributions:17 commits in 3 months
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