May 2019 – Present
Co-founder & CTO at Terraprima Group, London, UK
Feb 2018 – Present
Co-founder & CTO at Mothive, London, UK
Terraprima Group and its subsidiaries, Mothive Limited and Odyssey Sensors Limited (merged in May 2019), focus on the design, development and distribution of affordable IoT solutions for the agricultural sector. Terraprima’s offering includes bespoke multi sensory devices together with its powerful software platform with intelligent features and specialised algorithms.
The company’s vision is a world with zero food waste and a sustainable agriculture. In the farm, Terraprima’s Hardware and Software ecosystem helps to plan, act and react, increase yield, optimise inputs operations and automate intelligently.
Responsabilities and achievements
- Co-founded the company and built the business: I took on all the strategic and business responsibilities as co-founder, director and board member of an early-stage startup, building the company and small leadership team from the ground up.
- Built from scratch the entire technology stack: From a cold start, I single-handedly designed and developed from scratch the entire technology stack: hardware, mechanical integration, firmware, dashboard, software & cloud infrastructure and intelligence. Then hired a small team around it to bring the technology effort to the next level.
- Product & Technology Management and Strategy: hired and led the product and technology team, set-up processes and ways or working, strategy, roadmap and budgets
- From prototype to mass manufacturing: developed the product from prototype through to DFM (design for manufacturing) iterations and mass manufacturing, including development of bespoke production tests, jigs and automation
- Set-up relationships and built supply chain in China: personally set-up relationships in China, audited manufacturing partners and suppliers, recruited a Supply Chain Director on the ground and setup a resilient, centralised and redundant supply chain that has delivered high quality products over various production runs.
- Launched & deployed various products & iterations: deployed our IoT products in UK, Europe, Asia and Africa: years of reliable, always-on and outdoor field operations. Collected a large amount of data (500M+ records). Led the iterations and improvement of a highly engaging Dashboard & Intelligent features.
Technologies
LoraWAN-enabled weather, environment and soil multi-sensors devices for always-on outdoor use (IP67). IoT software infrastructure, Dashboard, smart reporting and intelligence (alerts, predictions, learning calibration).
Complete solution developed in-house, including production engineering and Supply Chain Management.
Mechanical
IP67 design • PC+ABS (UV stabilised) • 3D & 2D CAD Design • Tooling • CNC • Bespoke Metal parts, bolts, nuts and o-ring design and manufacturing • Bespoke Cables and Connectors design and tooling
Production
Production automation and testing (python, UART, USB) • JTAG, SWD • Test Jigs • Quality control & testing • DFM • Sourcing and supply chain management • CM selection and audits • EVT, DVT, PVT, mass production • Packaging design • Traceability and labelling (Zebra printers)
Hardware
RF (LoRa) • Alkaline & Li-ion batteries, USB power • MEMS sensors • Solar charger • USB charger • Voltage Regulators • Actuators • ADC/DAC • Analog and Serial Interfaces • PCB design, test & assembly • Low Power Design • BOM Optimisation • EMC • Certification
Embedded Software
C • Bare metal • ARM Cortex-M • STM32 • I2C • SPI • UART/USART • RS485 • Modbus RTU • LoraWAN • python • ZPL (Zebra Programming Language) • bash
Sensors
Accelerometer • Light Sensor • Spectrometer • Air Temperature/Relative Humidity • Soil Probe • Water Level • Anemometer • Rain Gauge • Leaf Wetness & Temperature
Full Stack Software
Laravel • PHP • Javascript • HTML • CSS • Vue.js • MySQL • REST API • FastAPI • JWT • Python • Serverless • The Things Stack (TTS)
Machine Learning
Python • TensorFlow • Keras • scikit-learn • Jupiter
Cloud & CI/CD
Git • Bitbucket • Docker • Bitbucket Pipeline • AWS (EC2, EBS, S3, DMS, RDS, ECR, Lambda, API Gateway, Cloud Formation, CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, SAM, Cloudwatch, Secrets Manager)
Other Tools
Jira, Confluence, ClickUp, Sketch, Trello, Slack
Oct 2017 – Jan 2018
CTO in Residence at Startubootcamp, London, UK
As the CTO in residence of the Accelerator Startupbootcamp IoT London, I have advised and mentored 9 IoT start-ups from all over the world (Canada, South America, UK, Israel, East Europe) and operating in diverse industries such as Agriculture, Security, Retail, Education, Transport, Space Management, Robotics.
Aug 2017 – Present
Director at Seroware, London, UK
Through Seroware, I work with tech start-ups as a consultant and advisor on technology management and strategy, as well as providing hands-on product and technology solutions and reviews.
Mar 2017 – Aug 2017
Co-founder at Ligo Health, London, UK
Ligo Health was founded by 5 experienced entrepreneurs with the aim to efficiently improve the processes of healthcare organisations and the experience of patients with real-time data. With an initial focus on the process of hip and knee replacements and the strategic goal of delivering and deploying a complete ecosystem to healthcare organisations, Ligo’s products aim to track and monitor patients before the treatment (pre-hab), during the hospital stay and recovery post-operation (rehab).
Feb 2017 – Present
Founder at Techntone, London, UK
TechnTone designs, manufactures and distributes high quality original Guitar Effects Pedals. As a boutique pedal manufacturer, TechnTone delivers modern technology and original designs with premium components to empower musicians to achieve their best tone. The current product line includes 3 pedals, mass produced and available via direct sale online and distributors worldwide.
Oct 2013 – Dec 2016
Co-founder & CTO at Vinaya, London, UK
Beautiful and intelligent wearable devices for holistic wellbeing. All in-house design and development and managed manufacturing in East Asia. Built first HW and SW iterations myself as only technical founder of the business and went on to build a talented team with which we mass manufactured and brought to market several hardware and software products.
Responsabilities and achievements
- Founded and built Vinaya Technologies (previously Kovert Designs) from idea to a company that has pioneered a new wave of beautiful and intelligent HW wearable products and their mobile and cloud ecosystem.
- Growth. As CTO and only technical co-founder, personally built the first HW/SW prototypes in the early days and went on building the tech and product team piece by piece. Lead the company throughout the various phases of fundings and growth.
- From Silicon to Cloud and everything in between. Recruited and Managed a team of researchers and engineers and lead the R&D effort of Hardware, Embedded SW, Manufacturing, Production Automation, Product Design, UX/UI Design, Product/Project Management, Mobile Apps Dev (iOS and Android), Cloud, Data Analysis and Machine Learning
- Business Strategy/Development & Product/Technical Management. Managed the business and product development strategy, roadmap, lead and negotiated deals and international business development
Technologies
Wearable Technology: smartband, ring, necklace, smart jewellery, sensors, biometrics, actionable insights
Hardware: PCB Design and Manufacturing, Prototyping, DFM, Sensors, Accelerometers, Cap touch, test jigs
Embedded SW: ARM Cortex M, Nordic Semiconductors, Keil, Eclipse, Segger, Production Automation, test routines
Mobile Design and Development: Xcode, Swift, Objective-C, Android, Parse, Invision, Zeplin, Applause
Cloud Computing and Data Analysis: APIs, Machine Learning, Internal web tools, PostgreSQL, AWS, NoSQL, ELK
Other Tools: Aha!, Jira, Zoho, Trello, Bitbucket, git, Slack
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014
From Graduate to Leading Hardware Design Engineer at Imagination Technologies, Kings Langley, UK
As a Lading ASIC Design Engineer I have worked on mobile GPU IPs that have been licensed to the best Hardware manufacturers in the industries (Apple, Intel, Samsung, Texas Instruments, Mediatek, etc.) and used in billions of devices worldwide (iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch, Samsung smart phones, various Intel SoCs and many more). As part of the PowerVR team I have designed, verified and optimised various IPs of the PowerVR Rogue architecture, mostly within the USC (Unified Shading Cluster, i.e. a complex block responsible for executing the programmable stages of the pipeline).
Responsabilities and achievements
- Digital ASIC Design: Played an active role in the Technical HW Specification, Design, Implementation, Verification and Optimisation of several blocks within various industry’s leading low power/high-performance GPU IPs.
- Main Responsibilities: RTL Design & Optimisation, new API specifications (OpenGL, DirectX and OpenCL), RTL Debug (Testbenches, Waveform, Gate-level, Emulator), Synthesis and Power Evaluation
- Leadership: Mentoring and supervising engineers with various levels of experience. Involved in the recruitment process, carrying out technical interviews.
Technologies
Programming/HDL languages: VHDL, tcl, linux shell programming, Assembly, System Verilog.
Simulation: Cadence Incisive NC VHDL, NC Elaborator, NC Sim, Simvision
Synthesis: Synopsys Design Compiler
Testing: Cadence ICCR, IMC, IFV, Atrenta Spyglass
Documentation: Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point.
Version Control: Cvs, Mercurial, Perforce.
Oct 2008 – Dec 2009
Research Scientist at NXP Semiconductor, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Research Scientist in the Modem and Media Signal Processing department of NXP Research at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven. I have worked on a multistandard and multiradio Software Defined Radio for in-car applications implemented on a single chip.
Responsabilities and achievements
- Part of the Research Team, studying and implementing patented algorithms on Low Power/High Performance Embedded Vector DSP (NXP EVP and Tensilica’s platform) for Software Defined Radio (SDR) in Car.
- Using HW/SW tools and low level programming, clock-cycles accurate simulations and debugging.
- Embedded Architecture and instruction sets optimisation and benchmarking.
Technologies
Programming languages: C, EVP-C, Embedded C for tailored extended-ISA processor, Matlab, Assembly, linux shell
Algorithm study: Matlab, SIMD, VLIW, SINR, Multiple antenna systems
HW/SW Dev Tools & Profiling: Tensilica Xtensa Development Tools, EVP SDK, Visual Studio
Documentation: LaTeX, Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point.
Version Control: Subversion, TortoiseSVN.
