Owen Brake

Owen Brake is the CEO of a stealth hardware company based in San Francisco, California. He earned a degree in Mechatronics Engineering from the University of Waterloo in 2024, where he served as the Technical Lead for the university's Formula Electric team for five consecutive years. Prior to founding his current venture, Brake held specialized engineering roles at several prominent technology and automotive firms, including working on neural implants at Neuralink and drive inverters at Tesla. His professional background also includes hardware and software development positions at Apple, Parallel Systems, and Ford, alongside technical experience scaling production SQL databases to manage over ten billion individual records. Today, Brake primarily focuses on developing advanced power systems, high power density electronics, lithium-ion cell modeling, and resource-constrained real-time embedded technologies for modern industrial and consumer hardware applications.