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Albuquerque, NM

Hi, I'm Rudy Parra.

Electrical lab technician & embedded systems developer building clean-energy hardware.

I'm an R&D Electrical Lab Technician working across lithium-sulfur and vanadium redox flow battery systems at GridFlow, architect of the full-stack energy platform behind Pii Energy's Edge 2000, and a published researcher in solar physics and glass physics. I like building things that bridge electrons, atoms, and code. Off the bench, I serve on the Board of NM Tech Talks and direct the New Mexico chapter of Techqueria — actively shaping the ecosystem I work in. Working with me means more than a multi-tool engineer on the bench; it means tapping into a network helping build New Mexico's tech scene.

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Clean Energy R&D

GridFlow

Senior Electrical Lab Technician — lithium-sulfur and vanadium redox flow battery systems, prototype hardware, embedded firmware.

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Pii Energy

Lead Software Developer — full-stack energy management for the Edge 2000. AWS backend (API Gateway + Lambda), room-level outlet control, real-time monitoring.

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NM Tech Talks

Board Member — strategy and community engagement for New Mexico's premier tech organization; co-organizer of Desert Dev Lab hackathon.

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Rudy in an NMTT-branded polo greeting Mayor Tim Keller and a guest at the Desert Dev Lab 2026 sponsor area

Desert Dev Lab 2026 · NM Tech Talks

Greeted Mayor Tim Keller at Desert Dev Lab 2026

Welcomed Mayor Tim Keller on arrival at WESST Enterprise Center and served as one of his point-persons throughout the event — walking him through the hackathon floor, introducing him to sponsors and judges, and connecting him with the founding teams behind the projects that came out of the weekend.

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Rudy standing next to U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich beside Pii Energy solar panels during a tour of the GridFlow and Pii Energy facility

U.S. Senate · Heinrich tour

Hosted Senator Martin Heinrich and team at GridFlow + Pii Energy

Walked Senator Martin Heinrich and his team through the GridFlow lab and the Pii Energy space — showing the full arc of renewable energy in New Mexico from the commercial market (GridFlow's flow-battery R&D) to the consumer market (Pii Energy's plug-in Edge 2000 solar + storage system).

Pii Energy in PV Magazine
Group photo with U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury, Rudy, and Central New Mexico Community College students outside a campus building

U.S. House · CNM visit

Sat with Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury & CNM students

Joined Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury and a roundtable of CNM students to share how Central New Mexico Community College's programs — STEM Core, the AAS in Computer Information Systems / Network Administration, and the Deep Dive bootcamps — opened a real path from community college into clean-energy R&D, defense, and applied research.

CNM Ingenuity · STEMulus Center

Deep Dive IoT Alum

A YouTube Short spotlight by CNM's Deep Dive IoT bootcamp on what 400+ hours of smart-device coding, electronics, soldering, and factory automation prepared me to build.

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Awarepreneurs · Episode 371

Bootstraps and Bootcamps: New Mexico's Pathways Into Tech

Hosted by Paul Zelizer · June 3, 2025 · ~52 min

A long-form conversation about going from community college through bootcamps into clean-energy R&D — and why nontraditional pathways and a strong local community are how tech actually gets built in New Mexico.

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