Summary
Dan Xia is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with over a decade of experience building device software, imaging pipelines, drivers, and consumer apps across companies from Microsoft and Nokia to startups. As CEO of a pet-tech hardware company and former senior software architect at Microsoft Mobile and Nokia, he blends deep low-level expertise (C/C++, device drivers, RTOS/Linux) with product-level experience in voice assistants and mobile apps. He has repeatedly led and scaled engineering teams, shipping camera, power management, and production-test systems for mass-market devices. Notably, he ported and optimized advanced Lumia imaging algorithms to Qualcomm Android pipelines and designed RPC and HW test stacks for wearable IoT at Microsoft. Based in Beijing, he combines hands-on driver/firmware craftsmanship with entrepreneurial product design for connected gadgets.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Communication Engineering, BS, Communication Engineering at Beijing Information Technology Institute