# Andrew Deagon > hardware product design for climate tech, med innovation and IOT Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/andrewdeagon You can find a portfolio of selected works at: www.andrewdeagon.com ## Work Experience ### Manager, Hardware PDME @ Verkada Jan 2023 – Present Managing HW PDME team. Driving key HW decisions across Verkada’s Access and Intercom product lines. ### Freelance Product Designer and Mechanical Engineer @ Unknown Jan 2022 – Present www.andrewdeagon.com Supporting various folks (from start-ups to public companies to VC firms) to define, design and bring new products into production through manufacturing and distribution. ### VP of Engineering @ SONA Global Jan 2022 – Present We work with surgeons, academic and non-profit organizations, and governments to make essential trauma and orthopedic surgery available to the poor and vulnerable. We assist our partners in research, education, policy and advocacy, and system and device innovation. https://www.sonaglobal.org/ ### Manager, Hardware Product Design @ Samsara Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 Initial mechanical engineering hire. Scaled HW PD team to 7+; HW team to 80+; Samsara growth from 30 to 1,800+ employees and revenues to $1B ARR. Samsara IPO'ed December 2021. Launched 15+ products into mass production; including Vehicle Gateways (VG32, VG33, VG34, VG54), Asset Gateways (AG26, AG46), Industrial Gateways (IG15, IG21), sensors (EM21/22, HM11), cameras (CM11, CM32, VS1). Experience onboarding multiple overseas and local CM/JDM/ODM engineering teams, injection molding, metal fabrication, electromechanical module and packaging vendors; establishing rigorous quality and reliability checks. Experience leading engineering teams to design for cameras, RF, mics, speakers, temperature and humidity sensors, IR, solar, batteries, thermal dissipation, ruggedized, outdoor, waterproof, cable harnesses, Hazloc, ATEX and UL. Experience shipping millions of units, across dozens of SKUs and revisions, while navigating supply chain issues. ### Senior Hardware Product Design Engineer @ Samsara Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 ### Lead Hardware Product Design Engineer - Industrial @ Samsara Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 ### Lead Hardware Product Design Engineer @ Samsara Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Mechanical Engineer @ Fitbit Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Contributed to the design of the Flex 2. Got to see how another large hardware company operates. ### Mechanical Engineer @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto, CA Created product architecture with Marketing and Industrial Design input. Recommended cost down solutions to key stakeholders. Coordinated with cross functional engineering teams for product engineering modules; speaker, microphones, battery, piezo buzzer, Wifi, BLE and LTE antennas. Performed several engineering studies to mitigate build risk. ### Mechanical Engineer @ Aether Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 We built the smart speaker, Cone. Parts and assembly design, 3D CAD, rapid prototyping, PCB board layout, FPC/ FFC, MEMS / ECM mic, DFM, coordination with OEM and CM, part drawings, tolerance analysis. ### Design Engineer / Incubator Resident @ Think2Build LLC Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA Early stage concept generation and prototyping. ### Maker @ Colour Cartel Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA Built NeckFX -- an interactive LED guitar. Press http://theawesomer.com/neckfx/166755/ http://www.ubergizmo.com/2012/04/neckfx/ http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/illuminating-guitar-necks-neckfx-by-colour-cartel-designs-a-colorful-led-gu ### Product Design Engineer Intern @ quirky.com Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | New York, NY Designed, prototyped, and shipped 4 products in 4 months. Scoop and Keeper were sold at Target. ### Engineer 2 @ Maquet Cardiovascular Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Jose, CA Conducted interviews with over 25 surgeons, defined User/ Market Specs for thoracic tool. Translated Market Specs to Product Specs and tool design with engineers. Developed preclinical model for bench top testing. Learn and performed lung resection procedure. Created Endobag project. Discovered need with field research and created prototypes. Business proposal was reviewed and a team and budget was approved for development. ### Engineer 1 @ Maquet Cardiovascular Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | San Jose, CA Performed failure analysis. Developed test method and fixtures for CAPA (Corrective and Preventative Action) project. Worked with vendor to correct issue. Implemented new on-line manufacturing methods. ### R&D Contract @ Maquet Cardiovascular Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | San Jose, CA Test development and fixture design. ### Research and Development Engineer @ Maquet Cardiovascular Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | San Jose, CA Assisted with test method and fixture design. Assisted with IEC 60601 compliance. ### Intern @ Artificial Muscle Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 ### Research Assistant @ Stanford Biomotion Lab Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 ## Education ### BS in Biomechancial Engineering Stanford University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/adeagon --- Source: https://flows.cv/andrewdeagon JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andrewdeagon/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-13