Valentina toll villagra and kyle dumont with allspice io

Circuit Break Podcast #210

Valentina Toll Villagra and Kyle Dumont with Allspice.io

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February 5, 2020, Episode #210

Kyle Dumont and Valentina Toll Villagra join the podcast to discuss Allspice.io and the future of git design workflow for hardware engineers.

Kyle Dumont

  • Experienced electronics designer having launched consumer products at large companies and startups for over 7 years
  • Has developed low volume products for government and military applications and high volume commercial products

Valentina Toll Villagra

  • Project Manager exploring the intersection of physical and digital systems at Allspice
  • Worked at Amazon expanding its national customer fulfillment network and rolling out internal productivity, collaboration and project management software applications to support the company’s growth

Allspice.io

  • Rundown of the platform
  • Where did the name come from
  • How did it begin?
    • The word “Agile” gets thrown around a lot.
    • Mechanical engineers have 3D printing and Software developers have great design and test tools.
  • What are your roles?
    • Kyle – Development, strategy
    • Valentina – Operations, customer success, marketing, product
  • How big is the team?
  • How does Allspice affect the engineer? The manager?
  • Diff control? How is this implemented?
  • Launch and the future?
    • When does it launch?
    • Are there plans to expand the offerings to other EDA tools?
    • What is next?

About the Hosts

Parker Dillmann
  Parker Dillmann

Parker is an Electrical Engineer with backgrounds in Embedded System Design and Digital Signal Processing. He got his start in 2005 by hacking Nintendo consoles into portable gaming units. The following year he designed and produced an Atari 2600 video mod to allow the Atari to display a crisp, RF fuzz free picture on newer TVs. Over a thousand Atari video mods where produced by Parker from 2006 to 2011 and the mod is still made by other enthusiasts in the Atari community.

In 2006, Parker enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin as a Petroleum Engineer. After realizing electronics was his passion he switched majors in 2007 to Electrical and Computer Engineering. Following his previous background in making the Atari 2600 video mod, Parker decided to take more board layout classes and circuit design classes. Other areas of study include robotics, microcontroller theory and design, FPGA development with VHDL and Verilog, and image and signal processing with DSPs. In 2010, Parker won a Ti sponsored Launchpad programming and design contest that was held by the IEEE CS chapter at the University. Parker graduated with a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Spring of 2012.

In the Summer of 2012, Parker was hired on as an Electrical Engineer at Dynamic Perception to design and prototype new electronic products. Here, Parker learned about full product development cycles and honed his board layout skills. Seeing the difficulties in managing operations and FCC/CE compliance testing, Parker thought there had to be a better way for small electronic companies to get their product out in customer's hands.

Parker also runs the blog, longhornengineer.com, where he posts his personal projects, technical guides, and appnotes about board layout design and components.

Stephen Kraig
  Stephen Kraig

Stephen Kraig is a component engineer working in the aerospace industry. He has applied his electrical engineering knowledge in a variety of contexts previously, including oil and gas, contract manufacturing, audio electronic repair, and synthesizer design. A graduate of Texas A&M, Stephen has lived his adult life in the Houston, TX, and Denver, CO, areas.

Stephen has never said no to a project. From building guitar amps (starting when he was 17) to designing and building his own CNC table to fine-tuning the mineral composition of the water he uses to brew beer, he thrives on testing, experimentation, and problem-solving. Tune into the podcast to learn more about the wacky stuff Stephen gets up to.

Special thanks to whixr over at Tymkrs for the intro and outro!