About Me
Hi there! My name is Daniel Castle.
In December 2019, I graduated in 6.5 semesters from Northeastern University with a degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Entrepreneurial Engineering to take a full-time role at Apple on the iPhone Hardware Systems Electrical Engineering Team in Apple Park, near San Francisco. There, I owned the schematics, design, layout, and validation for all flexes (flexible printed circuit boards) for the iPhone 12 Mini, and a few months after its launch, I transferred to the Imaging & Sensing Incubation team in San Diego, where I created custom hardware platforms for Apple's upcoming camera systems and features, primarily supporting the Apple Vision Pro. After an internal rotational program on the Desktop & Portable Mac Hardware Systems Engineering Program Management team, working on the Mac Studio & M4 Macbook Pro lineup, I officially transfered to the Data Center Engineering Program Management team in Austin, Texas, where I'm now the Firmware Engineering Program Manager (EPM) for all of Apple's Intel x86 data centers.
I'm originally from Hockessin, Delaware (Dela-where? Hah! *slaps knee*), where I was a martial arts instructor and a soccer referee.
Throughout Northeastern's co-op program, I learned core engineering concepts while jumpstarting my practical knowledge from relevant in-field experience, allowing me to work for 14 months at 2 different companies during college: RKF Engineering, a satellite & terrestrial communications company in Bethesda, Maryland outside of D.C., and Apple Inc., inside the spaceship of Apple Park, on the same team from which I accepted my full-time offer.
While in classes, I embraced the entrepreneurial hustle of my university and became a Project Lead for Generate, a student-led product development studio, where I led a team of 6 engineers in the building of a "Keurig for cold brew" fast cold brew coffee machine, which can make cold brew coffee in 3 minutes using vacuum pumps to cold boil water. The previous semester, I was a build studio engineer, where I built a printed circuit board (PCB) for the power, control, and sensor integration of a radio-controlled (RC) car. The semester before that, I helped rapid prototype and build the circuitry for a smart measuring device for clothing-fitting client that became Generate's first client to be acquired by another company, which occured in 2018. On campus, I was also a Resident Assistant for East Village and a Research Assistant in a Department of Homeland Security Center of Excellence lab, in addition to being a brother in Alpha Kappa Psi, a co-ed professional business fraternity. Within AKPsi, I was the Master of Rituals & an Engagement Manager in Chi Sigma Consulting, their non-profit consulting group, where I led three fellow brothers in developing fundraising and financial models for The Samfund, an organization for young adult cancer survivors.
In my free time, I enjoyed being a tour guide for Northeastern and playing intramural soccer, with my team name of "Knock Knock, ResLife!" being particularly amusing. I'm currently in the midst of a Frasier marathon, and the TV shows Burn Notice, White Collar, and Royal Pains remain some of my favorite shows to date.
Fun fact: I was on Conan in 2013! Check out my (literal) 2 seconds of fame here!