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Lillian Skyler Danforth

Electronics technician

San Francisco, CA · danforthls@skyseekerlabs.net

Four years of electronics technology training, a year of electrical engineering, and a habit of soldering things at home: split keyboards from kits, battery swaps, a solar mesh-radio repeater, and two robots that won their competitions. I'm looking for electronics technician work, and I bring the Linux and IT side with me.

All projects PDF resume (to come)
4 yearselectronics technology training2 for 2robot competitions won, built soloSMD + through-holesoldering, scopes and metersSolarLoRa mesh repeater, run for months

Skills

Hardware
Through-hole and SMD soldering, crimping, multimeters and oscilloscopes; building and repairing desktops, laptops and servers; switches, routers and running cable.
Linux
Debian, Arch, Red Hat, NixOS and Gentoo families; Ubuntu Server, Fedora, Pop!_OS, EndeavourOS, Nobara. Fully declarative whole-system config, automated installs and updates.
Infrastructure
ZFS, zrepl, Restic, Docker, Podman, QEMU/KVM, Caddy, WireGuard, Tailscale, SOPS, systemd, Grafana, Loki, octoDNS, SSH with FIDO2 keys.
Scripting
Nix and Nix packaging, Bash; basic Python and Java; Arduino.
AI agents
Claude Code and Codex for coding and review, unattended jobs, sandboxing agents away from secrets and the network.
Other OSes
Windows 10/11 and Server, Microsoft Office, Hyper-V, macOS, iOS, Android.

Experience

  1. IT work and the homelab, SkyseekerLabssee projects
  2. Rental Car Detailer, Avis Budget Group, SFO AirportAug–Oct 2025
  3. Elementary and Middle School Chess Coach, Waddell Elementary and Lylburn Downing Middle School, Lexington, VAAug 2023–May 2025
  4. Technical Book Editor, freelanceMar–May 2024

Education

  1. Cyber Security & Network Administration, Virginia Western Community College2023–2025
  2. Electrical Engineering, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology2021–2022
  3. Electronics Technology (trade and industrial program), Floyd Kay2017–2021

Projects that show it

fun

Split ergonomic keyboards, soldered by hand

Built split ergonomic keyboards from kits, a Charybdis Nano and then a Faux Fox Keyboard (FFKB), and currently building a Svalboard. Did through-hole and surface-mount soldering and assembly, configured the layout in Vial, and had PETG parts 3D printed by PCBWay and a laser-cut, powder-coated steel base made by SendCutSend. Chose the second board by working out why the first caused wrist pain.

hardwarekeyboards
fun

Two robot competitions, both won

Won the robot competitions (about 10 teams each) in a high school electronics class and a college robotics class, building and programming both robots alone. The first was a two-wheel robot that navigated a room using only bumper sensors and solved mazes; the second followed lines through a hidden maze, was driven manually through another section, and dragged a rubber duck back to the start in reverse.

roboticshardware
serious

Batteries, thermal paste and a PC build

Replaced the battery in an iPod Classic, replaced several laptop batteries, reapplied thermal paste on many laptops, and built a desktop PC.

hardwarerepair
fun

Mesh radio and a solar repeater

Member of the Bay Area Meshtastic (LoRa mesh radio) group: one of the lead presenters at the open-source booth at Open Sauce 2025, and ran a solar and battery powered RAK4631 repeater node for a few months.

see it →
radiocommunity
fun

Building a workshop from scratch

Helping build a foam-core insulated workshop from scratch (started August 2026), framing it in wood around standard pallet racks with power tools, and ran the 120-volt wiring for its lighting.

buildingelectrical
serious

Alerts that caught a dying USB enclosure

Set up fleet-wide log collection with Grafana Alloy, Loki, and Grafana, and periodic ZFS, SMART, and systemd health checks that send a Discord alert when a disk or service fails. The alerts caught silent checksum corruption from a faulty USB drive enclosure, traced to its UAS link and fixed with a kernel quirk and a cable replacement.

see it →
monitoringlinux
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