Dan Kuester
Electronics Engineer at NIST
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Kuester is an Electronics Engineer and researcher with nine years of experience focused on measurement science to enable spectrum-sharing wireless design, deployment, and regulation. Based at NIST since 2015 after earlier RF roles in industry and graduate research, he blends hands-on RF and analog engineering with rigorous metrology practice. He holds a PhD and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado Boulder and also studied music performance, reflecting a discipline for both technical rigor and creative problem-solving. Dan’s work supports standards and policy-relevant measurements that make complex, shared-spectrum systems interoperable and accountable. Quietly interdisciplinary, he pairs precision instrumentation skills with real-world RF system experience to bridge lab research and regulatory implementation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado at BoulderBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (14)
scripting10
python9
automation9
conda9
conda-forge7
netcdf5
pandas4
dask3
numpy3
hardware2
zap1
fsspec1
dataclass1
dataclasses1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
usnistgov/striqt
Jul 2025 - Jul 2026
simplified scripts for signal analysis on spectrum sensors
Contributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 552 pushes in 1 year
usnistgov/ssmdevices
Jul 2023 - May 2026
a collection of labbench drivers
Contributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 116 pushes in 2 years 11 months
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