Daniel De Waard
Seagoing Electronics And Software Engineer at CSIRO
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel De Waard is a seagoing electronics and software engineer with a decade of cross-industry experience spanning marine instrumentation, biotech medical devices, autonomy for watercraft, and deep-tech electronics manufacturing. Currently serving as a seagoing instrumentation engineer on CSIRO’s RV Investigator, he blends embedded firmware, cloud and full‑stack development with hands‑on PCB and sensor prototyping. He has led software teams at startups—establishing CI/CD, testing and data pipelines—and built autonomy stacks integrating Ardupilot/MAVLink and SITL tooling for USVs. Daniel’s background includes product-facing roles in clinical sensing, manufacturing automation and business development, and an immersive year in Taiwan that continues to inform his technical collaboration across the Indo-Pacific. Known for pairing field deployment experience with rigorous software practices, he’s comfortable taking projects from hardware bring‑up to production-grade software systems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
National Taiwan UniversityVCE, VCE at Luther CollegeBachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering (Hons) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering (Hons) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Monash University
English
Github Skills (5)
codesandbox4
react3
typescript2
javascript2
audience2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
danieldewaard/test-project
Feb 2023 - Feb 2023
Contributions:18 reviews, 18 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 day
joshuajimsim/UrbanPlanner.AI
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:13 commits, 14 pushes in 1 month
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