Summary
Dougal Stanton is an embedded engineer with 18 years’ experience designing and implementing low-level networking and firmware solutions, currently focused at Calnex Solutions in Glasgow. He brings deep expertise in C and router-redundancy protocols (HSRP, GLBP, VRRP) from his time working on Cisco IOS, coupled with practical product development experience from Honeywell and embedded systems integration. Comfortable across languages including Haskell and Java and versed in web and documentation markup (HTML, XML, CSS, LaTeX), he combines protocol-level rigor with tooling and admin skills honed earlier in his career. Known for methodical development, unit testing and code review discipline, he has a track record of turning complex networking requirements into robust, production-ready firmware. A University of Edinburgh computer science graduate, he pairs academic foundations with pragmatic engineering across telecom and security domains.
18 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, BSc (Hons), Computer Science at The University of Edinburgh