Dane Austin
Principal Optical Scientist, Staff Software Engineer & Engineering Manager at Halo Industries, Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDane Austin is an optical engineer, software engineer, and applied physicist with over a decade of hands-on experience translating cutting-edge photonics research into manufacturable systems and scalable products. As Director of Research and Principal Engineer at Halo Industries, he leads multidisciplinary teams across optics, electronics, and software, having previously architected a million-channel optical ML accelerator at Fathom Computing and built multiple record-setting prototypes. His background spans academic leadership in ultrafast laser labs to full-stack system design—ray and wave optics, tolerancing in Zemax, instrumentation, and control software—so he bridges deep theory and practical engineering. Based in California, he seeks hard, important problems and brings startup experience in fundraising and cross-discipline collaboration, plus a DPhil from Oxford that underpins his experimental rigor.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
DPhil, Atomic and Laser Physics, Nominated for European Physical Society Quantum Electronics & Optics PhD thesis, DPhil, Atomic and Laser Physics, Nominated for European Physical Society Quantum Electronics & Optics PhD thesis at University of OxfordThe University of Sydney
English, intermediate spanish
Github Skills (84)
checker10
qt9
sql9
database9
python9
postgresql-extension9
visualization9
time-series9
ingest9
multiprocessing9
memoization9
scientific-visualization9
type-checking9
financial-analysis8
timeseries-database8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
draustin/otk
Mar 2020 - Aug 2020
Optics toolkit
Contributions:125 commits, 52 pushes, 10 branches in 5 months
optics
draustin/pyqtgraph_extensions
Feb 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:72 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 8 months
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