Daniel Witte
Principal Flight Software Engineer at Astro Mechanica
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Witte is a Principal Flight Software Engineer with 17 years of experience blending deep electrical engineering roots and large-scale software leadership, currently building the flight software stack for a supersonic aircraft at Astro Mechanica. Previously a Director at Meta, he led ~220 engineers across the full Ads product stack, drove major frontend modernizations and uptime improvements, and launched AI-driven features for advertiser workflows. Comfortable from mixed-signal circuit design and embedded C++/Rust to cloud infra and React UX, he brings rare cross-domain fluency that spans hardware, firmware, and high-scale web systems. He pairs hands-on engineering — recently designing an NXP ARM-based DAQ and PID controller for cooling systems — with strategic product and team-building experience. Based in San Francisco with a PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he thrives on learning new domains and shipping pragmatic, high-quality systems under real-world constraints.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering with Honours Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering with Honours Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of CanterburyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Stanford University
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Github Skills (17)
bit10
mojolicious9
perl9
mozilla9
version-control8
inbound8
forking7
firefox6
cookie6
http6
java6
git-clone5
git-lfs5
git4
cli2
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Github contributions (5)
boxidau/race-coprocessor
Jan 2024 - May 2024
Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
mozilla/integration-mozilla-inbound
Dec 2008 - Feb 2012
EXPERIMENTAL - copy of mozilla-inbound for forking on github
Contributions:14 commits in 3 years 2 months
forkingmozillainbound
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