Elexa Consumer Products, Inc. (elexausa.com )

Chicago, IL — October 2018 - Present

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Head of Engineering

2022 - Present

Responsible for a wide range of engineering projects across the company's hardware and software products.

• Heading the creation of physical and digital products specific to customer needs
• Led technical implementation of enterprise-scale water leak monitoring solution built on LoRaWAN©
• Active deployed network of 10,000+ leak detectors across continental USA and Hawaii
• Built factory and warehousing software to coordinate large-scale device provisioning and rollout
• Developing LLM-powered AI assistant to aid employees in day-to-day company operations
• Integrated across internal company APIs and external toolchains
• Built in Python on OpenAI Assistant architecture
• Led DevOps strategy; deployed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for automated backend and app releases
• Primary technical contact for ongoing product manufacturing
• Interacting with business partners to gather and relay technical information

Lead Product Engineer

2020 - 2022

• Architected and developed cloud software platform enabling 24/7 remote monitoring and control of home water systems
• End-to-end solution for deployment of company IoT products
• Encompasses device connectivity, data processing, customer-facing web and mobile applications, realtime alerting, and more
• Leverages many services from GCP including Compute Engine, App Engine, Cloud Functions, Firebase, Firestore, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Scheduler, Load Balancer, EMQX MQTT
• Introduced company-wide technical documentation and SOPs to improve interdepartmental workflow

Embedded Systems Enginer

2018 - 2020

• Developed and maintained device firmware for water valve controller and other battery-powered devices devices
• Targeted Espressif ESP32 and STM32 platforms
• Leveraged Semtech SX126x/7x series LoRa transceivers for RF communication
• Created automated test fixtures and internal tools

Skyways Air Transportation, Inc. (skyways.com )

Electrical Engineer

Austin, TX — August 2017 - December 2017 (Consulting), January 2018 - August 2018

• Developed various hardware and electrical systems for autonomous, heavy-lift VTOL aerial platform
• Designed avionics carrier board using Autodesk EAGLE that integrated flight subsystems
• Created electronics package for vehicle payload door
• Planned actuator and sensor placement with team engineers
• Created PCBs and wiring harnesses for subassemblies
• Implemented actuator control in firmware and provided interface to flight computer
• Responsible for vehicle avionics wiring harnesses design and assembly utilizing MIL-spec components
• Assisted in flight operations at home and during field testing; participated in integrated training exercises

iKeyless, LLC (ikeyless.com )

Electrical Engineering Co-op

Louisville, KY — Summer 2015, Spring 2016, Fall 2016

• Utilized ARM Cortex M7 platform to create an encrypted programming system
• Designed circuit, wrote firmware, and created accompanying PC tools to interface with system
• Developed and deployed RF tool capable of identifying company products
• Created hardware package for debugging NXP microcontrollers
• Designed and assembled specialized programming fixtures

International Aerial Robotics Competition

Redbird Robotics — Co-founder, Project Manager

University of Louisville — January 2017 - December 2017

• Led a team of engineering students in developing autonomous multirotor platform
• Created robust flight system using Python, ROS1, PX4 flight stack atop NVIDIA Jetson TX2
• Offloaded complex computation tasks (vision, at the time) to ground systems
• Provided telemetry node with graphical interface to monitor and interact with the vehicle
• Enabled less experienced team members to write and execute flight plans

Achieved 2nd place at the North American venue IARC in 2017

NASA Student Launch Competition

River City Rocketry (rivercityrocketry.org ) — Lead Payload Electrical Engineer

University of Louisville — September 2016 - May 2017

• Participated on a student-led team to develop a multirotor capable of rocket deployment followed by autonomous target detection and landing
• Led decision making on fundamental multirotor vehicle characteristics
• Responsible for vehicle avionics, propulsion, and power delivery systems
• Led flight testing campaigns from initial concept platforms into full integration with flight vehicle
• Designed circuitry and PCB for redundant remote power cut-off and automatic parachute recovery system
• Utilized ROS1 running on Raspberry Pi Linux microcomputer to interface with PX4 flight stack
• Integrated flight control software and vehicle vision systems
• Created full technical documentation (PDR, CDR, FRR) detailing all aspects of relevant systems

Achieved overall 1st place in the 2017 NASA Student Launch Initiative (nasa.gov )

Capstone Design Laboratory

University of Louisville — Fall 2017

• Developed C libraries for IMU and sensorless (no hall-effect) BLDC motor control
• Built on Microchip ATSAME70 microcontroller
• Motion sensing used TDK InvenSense MPU9250 9-axis IMU
• Implemented sensor fusion algorithms for orientation estimation of handheld 3-axis gimbal