Summary
Daan Van Driel is an Application Engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience bridging industrial design and electrical engineering to create pragmatic, well-crafted technological systems. Trained at TU/e in Industrial and Product Design and in Electronics and Cyber-Physical Systems in Bolzano, he excels at rapid prototyping, PCB and circuit design, and embedded C development for real-world products. His career spans interaction and embedded roles at VanBerlo and SPINNOV and now application engineering at TTControl, where he applies both an analytical and creative problem-solving approach. Driven by sustainability and the societal impact of technology, he combines curiosity about nature with a pragmatic focus on long-term performance and manufacturability. Unusually for someone with a design background, he maintains deep firmware and electronics skills, enabling seamless integration from concept to working prototype.
9 years of coding experience
VWO, VWO at Karel de grote college, Nijmegen
Bachelor's degree, Industrial and Product Design, Bachelor's degree, Industrial and Product Design at Eindhoven University of Technology
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Master of Arts - MA, Interaction Design, Master of Arts - MA, Interaction Design at Umeå Institute of Design
English, Dutch, German, Italian