# Galileo Daras > Founding Engineer @ Watney Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/galileo 10+ years of business programming in a range of industries from cryptocurrency to robotics, energy storage, networked platforms, and IoT. Comfortable delivering projects in ambitious startup environments with little oversight. Experience with performant software for embedded devices, using C, C++, Rust, or Golang. Can setup portable containerization both for production and for development environments. Good at ensuring cloud platform flexibility of production software to reduce overhead costs of the different cloud providers. ## Work Experience ### Founding Engineer @ Watney Robotics Inc Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Sr. Software Firmware Engineer @ Tools for Humanity Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Berlin, Germany Supporting Worldcoin. https://worldcoin.org/ Worldcoin is a new, global digital currency that will be distributed fairly to as many people as possible. Worldcoin will launch by giving a free share to everyone on Earth. We hope to give billions of people, from all over the world, equal access to one collectively owned, decentralized network. In doing so, we hope to accelerate the transition towards a more inclusive and prosperous global economy. Learn more about what we’re doing and our open positions on our website: https://worldcoin.org/ ### Founder @ Nebula Consulting Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater Boston High-energy consulting firm focused on a blend of web projects and presence for local businesses alongside full-stack rapid build-out of custom sensors. ### Software Firmware Engineer @ Helium Inc Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed and built scalable and cryptographically secure OTA firmware update system, worked on low-level fully reproducible Linux builds, userspace libraries for cryptographic ICs, and high throughput webservers in Rust and Erlang. ### Software Engineer @ SPIN Storage Systems Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Burlingame, California Building a Revolution flywheel system, a 3 foot high, 3-foot diameter device that stores 20% more energy than a Tesla Powerwall at 35% of the 30Y lifecycle cost. Developed key power-grid specification implementation including implementation of SUNSPEC for energy storage systems, supporting proper power storage and deliver from renewables to dampen solar duck curve. ### Software Engineer @ Referencely Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Taking talent matching to the next level by smashing existing barriers and empowering your references and network. Developed platform’s core matching algorithm for high dimensionality employment datasets ### Programming Captain @ FRC Team 4904: Bot-Provoking Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | The Nueva School Co-captain of the programming sub-team on the Bot Provoking FRC robotics team. Lead the development of first-of-its-kind full field mapping built on cheap LIDAR to allow for high accuracy self-localization anywhere on the field. Developed highly controlled spline-based curved pathing for quicker and more fluid autonomous motion. ### Software Engineer Internship @ RhythmOne Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Built crawlers to parse and clean dirty data from a variety of websites. Began full-stack project to expand site functionality. Worked on frontend tasks. ### Software Engineer @ Swap Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area Created new technology based on directional, contactless file sharing for mobile devices via GPS, Bluetooth, and accelerometer data. Additionally created the CMS and project management tools to manage all the facets of the backend. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Coinomi Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Cryptowallet company started in 2012 where I interned with the core founder group, contributing to the Android app. Company subsequently raise $20M in a Series A. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Worcester Polytechnic Institute ### High School Diploma in Computer Science The Nueva School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/galileodaras - Website: https://nebula.dev/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/galileo JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/galileo/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05