Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States
Leading a team of 5 firmware engineers, including myself, to design a sterile tube welder from the ground up and deliver it to market 16 months later (start of 2026).
Technical leadership responsibilities include interfacing with the client, understanding and documenting requirements, system architecture, running an agile team, supporting compliance and safety testing, and driving conversations between the FW, electrical, and mechanical teams.
The embedded development I've done covers the entire stack, from hardware bringup to UI. It's the most complex project I've worked on, both due to the integration of a graphics-rich UI right in the micro and the sheer number of peripherals needed to support tube welding of various size & material tubes.
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
I joined the team mid-April when components were just being ordered, and 10 weeks later we had a completed and operating DOAS (commercial HVAC) unit on a truck. Our 10-person team designed and built the unit from the ground up in record time.
As the only FW employee, I was responsible for bringing up all of the hardware and creating a robust, internet-connected HVAC controller that would first support testing at OTS (Optimized Thermal Systems) and then continue onto it's field trial on a warehouse roof in Houston.
The field trial was a success and Transaera went on to raise $10.5M dollars to develop larger units for other field trials.
This was definitely the wildest 0-1 sprint of my life!
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Led the embedded development of Triton - a high-volume, automated, manufacturing-floor scanner (think conveyor belts, grabby arms, automated analysis and sorting) that will allow Lumafield to move into the production market with a completely automated CT scanning solution.
Led two technical, cross-team projects that sold to customers for $10,000/year.
Expanded Scan Volume:
Increased scannable size by 80% by introducing an offset (and a bunch of math to handle it)
Able to scan objects such as my bike helmet and hockey skate
Unlocked new opportunities with manufacturers of large objects
Read on at lumafield.com/article/introducing-expanded-scan-volume
Fast Scanning:
Dropped minimum scan durations from 30 minutes to 15 seconds
Unlocked many new opportunities with customers and allows the product to enter the manufacturing space
Other work:
Day-to-day support for others’ projects, smaller feature development, bug fixes
Assessing reliability of new features across different hardware configurations
Profiling to understand and resolve performance bottlenecks
Approximate distribution of my technical work on the Scanner SW stack:
80% Embedded SW, in asyncio Python
10% React Frontend
5% Firmware, in C
5% Linux
2021 — 2022
Palo Alto, California, United States
Led two teams of 5 developers, software engineers, and QA staff in developing educational courses (videos & hands-on programming labs) on the topics of "AI for Good" and "Mathematics for Machine Learning", overseeing product development from inception to implementation.
Responsible for the quality of our products, ensuring that they meet ambitious learning goals while being easy to comprehend, accessible, and a pleasure to engage with for our learners.
Collaborated with the marketing team to research and understand a market need for a new specialization. Then, consulting with subject-matter experts from industry and academia to develop modern, relevant curricula.
After developing an understanding of our target learner (persona), I worked with my teams to develop actionable learning objectives (targets) and then work backwards to accomplish them - first designing the assessments and then developing the lectures and teaching material. Running detailed alpha and beta tests along the way allow us to iterate on the product based on learner feedback.
Co-created a training program to upskill existing post-secondary educators to produce high-quality asynchronous, online content.
Kitchener, Canada Area
Led the development of an automatic water shut-off valve that has saved businesses millions of dollars by preventing devastating water damage:
Technical: worked with a third-party hardware supplier, co-created a custom over-the-air communication protocol over LoRa, wrote firmware to integrate the first actuator product with the existing ecosystem of monitoring sensors.
Product: mapped user work flows for manual & automatic shut-off, ensured seamless integration between firmware and platform, contributed to graphic design and marketing, coordinated beta testing and roll-out the product.
Contributed to the development and maintenance of six smart building products, as part of a team of three embedded software developers.
Managed a fleet of over 10,000 sensors deployed across North America, including new firmware deployments, fleet health checks, and data analysis.
Represented the Hardware team in company-wide usability discussions.
Education
University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.)
Udacity
Artificial Intelligence Nanodegree
2011 — 2012
Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark
Exchange
2011 — 2012