Brian Scally
Principal Hardware Engineer at First Mode
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Scally is a Principal Hardware Engineer with 11+ years of recent experience and a 30+ year career designing consumer electronics, systems, and platform-level hardware from concept through end-of-life. He has led cross-functional, multi-company programs at organizations from startups to Meta and Microsoft, delivering high-volume set-top boxes, mobile power systems, medical devices, and connected body sensors. His strengths span system architecture, power and battery design, radios (Bluetooth/other RF), low-noise analog, embedded platforms, and technical program management. Notably, he has paired rapid prototyping and Agile hardware development with industry-standard work—driving standards-level integration (e.g., NFC/Bluetooth pairing, MFi) and first-to-market implementations such as early HDMI consumer sources. Based in Seattle, he balances hands-on schematic/layout work with lifecycle cost modeling and regulatory-to-recycling thinking, and continues to seek broader industry exposure and leadership growth.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Electronics Engineering, Bachelors, Electronics Engineering at University of Southampton
EnglishGithub contributions (1)
Hoxford/tyler-woogduh
Jul 2014 - Nov 2018
Contributions:54 commits, 2 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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