San Luis Obispo, California
I'm Lee Wilkerson — a degreed mechanical engineer who has spent the last ten-plus years designing products, machining parts, pulling composite molds, wiring up facilities, and running a couple of startups along the way. Exactlee is where I take on design and consulting work for people who need someone who understands both the CAD file and the shop floor it ends up on.
Most of what I know I learned by needing it on a real project with real money on the line. The work below is the resume.
Selected Work
I designed and built a wedge camper and a composite truck cap for the Tesla Cybertruck — from SolidWorks surfacing through CNC-cut molds, vacuum-infused parts, and twenty delivered units. Two design patents, utility patents pending, and a launch press release that pulled millions of views in a week. The full site is preserved here as part of the portfolio.
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Hero shot: The Cap installed on a Cybertruck — beach or campsite photo from the marketing library.
Built a kombucha company from an empty room: facility build-out, custom production equipment, glycol chilling, CO2 distribution, and the fermentation program itself. The interesting part was discovering that shallow, flat tank geometry kept the brew naturally under 0.5% ABV — no intervention needed, just the right air-exposure-to-depth ratio.
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Production floor or tank room photo — ideally one showing the coolship-style tanks or the taproom.
Designed bioreactors for autonomous units that turned grocery food waste into fertilizer on-site. Took the second-generation prototype from over $300k to a $70k redesign. The company still uses the design and ships fertilizer by railcar.
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Photo or render of the harvester unit / bioreactor — even an early prototype shot works here.
Get in Touch
Tell me what you're trying to build, where it's stuck, or what it costs too much to make. No forms, no discovery-call funnel — just email me and we'll talk about whether I'm the right person for it.