Summary
Ethan Harte is an embedded systems engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience designing firmware and system architectures for power electronics and solar energy products. He has delivered end-to-end solutions for solar monitoring gateways and microinverter headends, spanning RTOS and Linux, protocol stacks (SunSpec, PLC, CAN, UART, I2C, SPI), metering, commissioning, and field diagnostics. Ethan has led teams and driven supply-chain and legacy product sustainment work, often inventing pragmatic fixes such as grid phase-locking to stabilize PLC on noisy grids and flash-wear mitigation techniques. He’s navigated regulatory and compliance requirements (IEEE 1547, IEEE 2030.5, Rule 21, HECO) while building protocol translation layers that enable DER interoperability. Based in Vallejo, CA, he enjoys bridging hardware and software to produce reliable, field-ready systems and has a track record of improving remote UX and diagnostic accessibility through clever protocol and GUI re-architecture.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz