Daniel Horner
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Horner is a multidisciplinary engineer and leader with 12 years of experience specializing in software and data for life sciences instrumentation, from bench research to product delivery. He has led R&D software for category-defining instruments—owning UI, automation, image processing, and closed-loop control for alignment—and later advanced platform capabilities as a Lead Staff Software Engineer at Nautilus. His background spans embedded systems, AWS IoT and FreeRTOS work at Amazon, and extensive hands-on flow cytometry expertise rooted in biomedical engineering degrees from the University of Toronto. Known for bridging systems engineering and software architecture, he combines regulatory and field-support experience with cloud and edge development. Based in Seattle, he brings a track record of turning complex laboratory problems into robust, productized solutions. An understated strength is his ability to navigate both low-level hardware constraints and high-level distributed software design to accelerate instrument delivery.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
M ASc., Biomedical Engineering, M ASc., Biomedical Engineering at University of TorontoUniversity of Toronto Schools
French, German, Hungarian
Github Skills (23)
markdown9
vim-plugin9
virtual-keyboard9
statusline9
espressif9
idl8
vim8
tabline8
schema7
jquery7
iot6
aws-iot6
pair-programming6
keyboard6
serialization6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CognitiveBuilder/cognitivebuilder
Mar 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:2 PRs in 4 years
danhorner/claude.vim
Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
Claude vim plugin for AI pair programming - a hacker's gateway to LLMs
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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