David Walker

David Walker has a diverse work experience in various companies and positions. David currently holds the position of Vice President Hardware Engineering at ePlant, Inc since July 2021. Before that, they worked as a Consultant at GeoStuff, Inc from October 2020. Their responsibilities included designing a geophone compass orienting device and investigating a communications-over-DC power system.

Prior to their role at GeoStuff, Inc, David held the position of Vice President Electronic Systems at Jupiter Research Foundation from January 2019 to July 2021. Their work involved designing and building a modular ecosystem for scientific instrumentation based on the Raspberry Pi. David also designed an autonomous microscope system controller.

Before their time at Jupiter Research Foundation, David worked at Liquid Robotics from January 2008 to January 2019. During this period, they held the positions of VP Electronic Systems, Chief Scientist, and Chief Electronics Architect. Their main contributions included architecting the power system for the next generation of the Wave Glider platform and defining its principles of operation.

Prior to Liquid Robotics, David worked at Micro Linear from December 2003 to January 2008 as the Chief Scientist and Digital Systems Architect. Here, they developed a micro-controller based modem FPGA for Micro Linear's ISM Spread-Spectrum Radio ICs and designed digital control logic for their line of PHS transceivers.

David also worked at Bandwidth9 from September 2000 to December 2003 as a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff. Their responsibilities included developing frequency tuning and locking algorithms for Bandwidth9's MEMs-tunable VCSEL laser and designing analog and digital circuitry for laser control.

Before Bandwidth9, David worked at VeriFiber, LLC as a Scientist from June 1999 to September 2000. Here, they performed electromagnetic modeling of electro-optic waveguide modulators and matched the modeled results to experimental devices.

Lastly, David started their career at Polaroid as a Senior Principal Engineer from September 1982 to May 1990. Their main achievements included developing a hard-disk streaming printer controller and technology for a color video frame acquisition system.

Overall, David Walker has extensive experience in hardware engineering, electronic systems design, and scientific instrumentation.

David Walker completed their Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from Purdue University from 1978 to 1982. Later, they pursued a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where they studied from 1990 to 1999. In August 2015, they obtained a certification in Duolingo French Fluency at the intermediate level.