Daniel Beer
Director Of Firmware Development at Igor Institute
Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
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Top SchoolDaniel Beer is a Director of Firmware Development based in Dunedin, New Zealand, with 16 years of experience in embedded Linux, microcontrollers, high-performance code and digital logic design. He has progressed from hands-on firmware and FPGA work to leading firmware teams at Igor Institute, and previously architected high-performance systems such as an S3-backed transactional key-value store and SSE2-optimized coordinate transforms. Comfortable in both low-level C/assembly and system architecture, he’s known for hardening real-world libraries—contributing bug fixes and robustness improvements to the popular quirc QR decoder. His background combines product-focused embedded engineering with algorithmic attention to edge cases like flood-fill stack overflows and Reed–Solomon decoding. Collected experience across startups and his own engineering business gives him an unusual mix of technical depth and practical delivery.
16 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Otago
Github Skills (11)
c1710
c1110
optimization9
optimisation9
debug9
numerical-optimization9
algorithm9
code-optimization9
debugging9
algorithms9
image-processing8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dlbeer/quirc
May 2012 - Oct 2021
QR decoder library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Bug Fixer
Backend Developer & Bug FixerContributions:57 commits, 34 PRs, 42 pushes in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to fixing bugs and improving the robustness of the `quirc` library. Their work involved addressing potential division-by-zero errors in test code and protecting against stack overflows within the flood-filling algorithm. They also corrected errors in the decoding of numeric and alphanumeric data types and fixed several minor issues. Additionally, they improved the Reed-Solomon decoder.
qrcodepdf417decoderdatamatrixean13
dlbeer/saraswati
Nov 2012 - Mar 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 5 years 5 months
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