Summary
Ethan Harte is a Vallejo, California-based embedded systems engineer specializing in power electronics and solar energy with 11 years of end-to-end firmware experience. He designs and maintains solar monitoring gateways across RTOS and Linux, handling firmware architecture, application development, and driver integration with protocols like SunSpec, PLC, CAN, UART, I2C, and SPI. His work spans metering, commissioning workflows, networking, diagnostics, and regulatory compliance for IEEE 1547, IEEE 2030.5, Rule 21, and HECO requirements, ensuring DER interoperability. He has led teams and delivered robust remote-control and diagnostics capabilities for microinverters and grid-connected devices, including protocol translation layers and GUI performance improvements. He is currently Embedded Systems Engineer at Nevados, applying his hardware-software bridging skills to field-ready energy solutions. He earned a BS in Computer Engineering from UC Santa Cruz and has prior senior roles at SunPower and Generac, where he shaped firmware for grid-interfacing systems and energy management.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz