Dan Cape
Senior Manager, QNX Cabin
Greater Ottawa Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Cape is a seasoned embedded software leader with 11+ years at QNX, now serving as Senior Manager of QNX Cabin after advancing through principal and senior engineering roles. He specializes in automotive systems, particularly integrating Android Automotive with the QNX hypervisor and building host-side services that bridge HALs and safety-critical platforms. Deep experience with C++, Qt/QML and Android Automotive is complemented by hands-on contributions to Qt Declarative—adding properties and fixing UI behaviors—showing a rare blend of low-level systems work and front-end UI polish. Based in the Ottawa area, he combines product-focused engineering with Agile practices and a track record of shipping cockpit, IVI and connectivity features across major auto shows and platform releases.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Algonquin College
English, French
Github Skills (7)
qml10
uid10
qtquick10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
qt/qtdeclarative
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Qt Declarative (Quick 2)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Dan contributed to the Qt Declarative (Quick 2) repository by implementing and modifying UI components within the QML framework. They introduced a new `enabled` property to the `Connections` element, enabling or disabling signal handlers. The user also fixed an issue related to text selection and added overwrite mode functionality to `TextEdit` and `TextInput` controls. Their work involved modifying existing QML components, adding new properties, and updating tests to ensure correct behavior.
qmlnimbledeclarativeqt5qt
qt/qtmultimedia
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Qt Multimedia
Contributions:4 commits in 1 year
qmlpyside6qt5qt-guimultimedia
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