Dan Charlton
Principal Hardware Design Engineer at Dockable LLC
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDan Charlton is a Principal Hardware Design Engineer in Seattle with over a decade of experience driving hardware bring-up, software test automation, and product launches across startups and tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon. He blends hands-on hardware design and diagnostics with program management skills—leading teams that shipped patent-pending tablet-plus-monitor prototypes, won a hackathon, and reached global customers through a startup. His background spans GPU and SoC ecosystems, device drivers, and multimedia pipelines, informed by early work in Windows graphics and large-scale release management. Comfortable from CAD and additive manufacturing to data-driven test planning, he excels at turning exploratory demos into production-ready products and partnerships with OEMs and IHVs. An engineer who publishes prototypes and tools openly, he pairs technical depth with a knack for customer-focused innovation.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) at University of Toronto
Github Skills (12)
mdt9
3d-printer9
printer9
3d-printing8
windows8
firmware8
microsoft6
atmel6
battery-level5
surface3
fluent-design2
winui1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
danchar4/3-in-1-dock
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 year 1 month
microsoft/3-in-1-dock
Jun 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.