Douglas Hutchings
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDouglas Hutchings is a field robotics engineer in Berkeley with 13 years of hands-on experience designing robust robots and mechatronic systems for hazardous and austere environments. He led Squishy Robotics from a research prototype to a customer-ready product line—directing embedded motor control, battery management, sensing and communications for air-deployable HazMat robots used by first responders. Douglas has secured and executed nearly $1.8M in competitive R&D awards (Army, ONR, NSF) and mentored junior engineers while coordinating customer discovery through I-Corps. His background spans motor design and high-power test fixtures for EV applications, tensegrity robotics research, and practical lab infrastructure upgrades at UC Berkeley. Now at Compound Eye, he continues to focus on fieldable autonomy and resilient hardware integration, combining academic control theory training with startup-scale productization. A less obvious strength: he blends deep prototyping rigor with customer-facing demos, turning fragile research platforms into reliably deployable systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering, Control of Robotic and Autonomous Systems, Master of Engineering, Control of Robotic and Autonomous Systems at UC Berkeley College of Engineering
Github Skills (38)
eagle9
qt7
hardware6
mbed6
flashing6
mavlink6
android5
internet5
kernel5
linux5
windows5
ios5
station5
texas-instruments4
autopilot4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
dHutchings/reciept_parser
Oct 2019 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 7 comments in 4 years 8 months
dHutchings/double_pendulum
Dec 2016 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 4 months
double-pendulumbatterylow-powerlinuxdouble
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