Duane Storey is a Canadian product engineer, researcher, and photographer currently based in Valencia, Spain. With graduate-level training in physics and electrical engineering and over 25 years of professional software development experience, he specializes in taking ideas from concept to finished prototype — handling architecture, firmware, PCB design, enclosure modeling, and software independently.

Duane has been building things since he was a teenager, when he wrote his first piece of software — a voting booth for bulletin board systems — at the age of 16. Early in his career he developed a vehicular collision re-creation package for an engineering firm in Vancouver, a control system for a robotic arm at Vancouver's Science World, and a portion of the original voice engine used in Yahoo! Messenger. He went on to become one of two principal engineers at CounterPath Solutions, where he authored the company's core audio and video media stack — software that was licensed by Yahoo! and deployed across over 100 million active endpoints. He also contributed to IETF STUN and TURN protocol development during that time, and was awarded a US patent in the voice over IP space.

In 2008, Duane co-founded BraveNewCode Inc., a software company best known for WPtouch, which was voted the #1 plugin for all of WordPress in 2009. After eight years of growth and development, the company was acquired by SureSwift Capital in 2016.

More recently, Duane has moved into embedded hardware and bioinformatics. He designed and built a custom Hi-Fi 5.1 amplifier system from scratch — 14 custom PCBs including ESP32 and STM32 control systems, DAC circuits, and DSP boards — and is currently prototyping a commercial portable battery pack for mobile professionals. He owns two 3D printers and is developing OpenDCAD, an open-source programmatic CAD tool built on the OpenCascade kernel, to support his hardware prototyping workflow. On the research side, he is building Chimera, a computational genomics pipeline for Long COVID and ME/CFS research that processes RNA sequencing data through multiple analytical layers including pathogen detection and immune cell profiling.

Duane received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Engineering Physics and his Master of Applied Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, both from the University of British Columbia. He graduated with a perfect GPA at the master's level and completed his undergraduate degree under the Chancellor's Entrance Scholarship. He has published research in the fields of weather forecasting and video compression, including a paper in the IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing.

Outside of engineering, Duane is an experienced photographer. In 2008 he was invited backstage at the Canadian Juno Awards in Calgary, where he photographed artists including Leslie Feist and Michael Bublé. His images of Leslie Feist and Sarah McLachlan from the BC Festival 150 in Victoria were acquired by the event promoters for future marketing. He is also an avid cyclist and long-distance walker — in 2017, following the sale of his company, he walked the Camino de Santiago and spent a year travelling the world.