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About Groundplane

Hardware doesn't fail in the design. It fails in the handoffs.

The team

Two senior people, on every project.

Groundplane has no handoffs to disappear into. Two senior people own every project end to end, from the first sketch to the last manufactured unit, and when you hire us, you get both of us on the work. We write the board firmware ourselves and bring in firmware partners when a project needs more hands. For industrial design, web and mobile, we work with senior partners we've shipped with before. No juniors running unsupervised, no work disappearing into someone else's queue.

Andrew Douglass.

Andrew Douglass

Founder, Lead Designer

A decade of electrical design and integration. At SpaceX, Andrew worked on Falcon stage avionics test, pad electrical, and Starlink and GEO payload integration, and was an integration engineering manager on the fairing refurbishment program. He has also done the electrical design for a robotics company that 3D-prints houses.

Jamie Alegre.

Jamie Alegre

PCB Designer

Custom PCB layout and manufacturing-ready schematics: multilayer boards, high-speed digital interfaces and compact layouts. Jamie lays out each board for the fab and assembly house that will build it.

Quotes and questions

Both of us, on your project.

No juniors running unsupervised, no work disappearing into someone else's queue. Tell us what you are building.

Replies within two working days.

What to send
  • Gerbers or native design files, with the fab drawing
  • Quantity now, and roughly per year
  • When you need it, and whether it must stay in the US