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Daniel N.

Altium/KiCad PCB Freelancer: High-Efficiency SMPS & Mixed-Signal

Gaithersburg, United States

Global rank:

11,850 / 131,560

Skill pts: 5

Altium Designer Autodesk Inventor CAD Design KiCad Power Electronics

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About

I’m a dedicated PCB layout engineer with 7+ years of hands-on experience turning complex schematics into production-ready boards especially in power-hungry and noise-sensitive applications. High-efficiency SMPS designs (buck/boost converters, GaN/SiC integrations) and mixed analog/digital circuits, like ADC/op-amp interfaces for sensors and IoT prototypes. I’ve routed dozens of boards where EMI control and thermal management aren’t just checkboxes—they’re what keeps your device reliable from prototype to pilot run.

Experience

Staff Electrical Engineer Forterra · Full-time Jan 2025 – Present 1 yrs 4 mos Clarksburg, MD, United States Core product designer for power electronics
Electrical Engineer VPT Inc. · Full-time May 2016 – Present 10 yrs Blacksburg, VA, United States DC-DC converter testing & design. Testing automation infrastructure design. Hybrid microcircuits, wire bonding, bare die components. Lab equipment modifications.

Education

Virginia Polytechnic and State University Bachelor of Scence, Electrical Engineering 2013 – 2016

Other experience

Mixed Signal Layout Layout that consists of multiple grounds and circuit types; power electronics, embedded systems, analog circuits.
SMPS Testing Automation Hardware testing of switch-mode power supplies. Interface lab equipments with excel via VBA and development of hardware to control lab equipments. Automated efficiency curves, line transient tests, load transient tests, input/output impedance tests, line rejection/audio susceptibility tests, turn-on tests, power electronics loop-gain/bode plot.
DC-DC Converter Layout Layout design for synchronous buck, synchronous boost, phase-shifted full-bridge, half-bridge LLC, full-bridge LLC, Active-clamp flyback, Active-clamp Forward. Planar magnetics layout.