Xavier Pacheco, Senior Electronic Design Engineer, Eaton
Xavier Pacheco is a Senior Electronics Design Engineer at Eaton Corporation with experience developing safety
critical electronic products. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering and enjoys using his skills
in hardware and firmware design to make what matters work at Eaton. In his free time, you can find him building
knowledge of embedded electronics, learning new skills, reading, walking, or sharing with friends.
Nishith Patel, Principal engineer, ABB GISPL
Nishith is a Principal Engineer specializing in electronics design. He has been working on product design for power
distribution and industrial automation. Key products developed by Nishith and his team are different protection and
control relays and control electronics for auto-reclosers (switchgear for overhead lines). He focuses on electronics
design with core areas of analog and power. He holds a Master's degree in industrial electronics.
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Daniel Schaeffer, Hardware Design Engineer, Tektronix
Daniel Schaeffer is a Hardware Design Engineer at Tektronix, specializing in oscilloscope probes and analog front-end
design. He worked on the team that developed the TIVP series of optically isolated probes. He has a Master's degree
in Electrical Engineering with a focus on Analog/RF from Portland State University, where he completed his thesis on
the measurement of a VHF frequency multiplier using nonlinear reflectometry.
Sneha Patel, Senior Power Hardware Engineer R&D, Rockwell Automation
Snehaben Patel is an electrical and power electronics engineer with over 10 years' experience in research, design,
development, control firmware programming, and testing of low- and medium-voltage drives, medium-voltage
motor starters, real time control of energy-saving HVAC systems, switched-mode power supply design, and
electronics ballast. She holds an Electrical Engineering degree with a Master's in Power Electronics from Sardar
Vallabhbhai National Institute of Technology.
