Dillon Nichols
R&D Engineer 2 at Siemens
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDillon Nichols is an R&D Engineer with 12 years of hands-on hardware and firmware experience, currently advancing product development at Siemens after designing satellite internet routers at Hughes Network Systems. He owns the full hardware design lifecycle—from requirements and high/low-level design to schematic capture, verification, testing, and field support—and pairs that with embedded firmware work on microcontroller-based systems. A lifelong tinkerer, Dillon prototypes and documents hobby electronics and microcontroller projects on his site, turning ideas into polished, usable devices. His background in device fabrication and graphene CVD research gives him uncommon depth in materials and device characterization that informs practical hardware decisions. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends rigorous lab experience with product-focused engineering to deliver reliable, testable hardware.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical Engineering, 3.19 GPA, BS, Electrical Engineering, 3.19 GPA at Penn State UniversityTechnical Degree, Opto-Electronics Technology, 4.0 GPA, Technical Degree, Opto-Electronics Technology, 4.0 GPA at Lenape Area Vocational Technical School
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Github Skills (200)
photon10
nintendo10
micro10
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golang10
text-editor10
particle10
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command-line10
arduino10
editor9
sega-genesis9
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
dwaq/Unix-Time-Clock
Jan 2018 - May 2022
An electronic clock that displays the current Unix time in decimal
Contributions:59 pushes, 20 branches, 1 tag in 4 years 4 months
unixclockdisplayselectronicdecimal
dwaq/particle-squared-code
Jul 2019 - May 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 11 months
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