About Me

I'm an embedded systems and power electronics engineer with deep expertise in battery management systems (BMS), power conversion, and real-time firmware. I work with companies and teams that need to move fast without cutting corners on the electrical foundation.

The Problem I Solve

Most engineering teams are strong in one domain—maybe firmware, maybe hardware—but bridging the gap between battery chemistry, power electronics, and embedded control is rare. That gap is where failures live: unstable cell balancing, inefficient converters, firmware that doesn't talk to the hardware it's supposed to control.

I sit in that gap. I've spent years working across BMS design, power topology optimization, and low-level firmware. I know how a balancing algorithm needs to change when your cells are in series vs. parallel, how thermal modeling informs charge rates, how a DSP's PWM resolution impacts ripple current.

What I Do

My practice is built around advisory-first consulting: design reviews, risk analysis, architecture validation, and technical guidance. I come in when you need someone to spot the flaw in your approach before you've invested six months building the wrong thing.

Common engagements:

  • Design review. Take a proposed BMS or power architecture, find the weak points, show you what will break and how to fix it.
  • Firmware-hardware co-design. Make sure your firmware can actually run on your hardware. Catch real-time timing bugs before silicon.
  • Optimization advisory. You have something that works but it's slow, draws too much current, or doesn't scale. Let's fix the root cause.
  • Safety & compliance analysis. What does your design need to pass IEC 61508, UL, or ISO standards? What's the right test strategy?

Technical Depth

Battery Management Systems: Cell balancing (passive, active, resonant), state-of-charge and state-of-health estimation, thermal modeling, safety monitoring (overcurrent, overvoltage, temperature). Lithium-ion chemistry foundation. Pack architecture and series/parallel topology trade-offs.

Power Electronics: DC/DC converters (buck, boost, buck-boost, Cuk), inverters, chargers, power distribution. Steady-state and transient analysis. EMI/EMC considerations. Thermal and magnetic design. Real-world validation and commissioning.

Embedded Firmware: Microcontroller and DSC programming (bare metal and RTOS). Real-time control loops, communication protocols (CAN, SPI, I²C), optimization for resource-constrained systems. Bridging firmware and hardware—understanding what the silicon can and can't do.

Why This Approach?

I built this practice around the reality of how hardware products actually get built. A one-person deep dive rarely solves the real problem—it's almost always at a boundary (firmware-hardware, power-thermal, architecture-cost). Advisory work lets me stay close to that boundary and teach your team to think about it too.

I also publish articles and maintain a library of design files and analysis tools. That's partly to build credibility, partly because I believe the best consulting relationships start when someone already knows how you think.

Get in Touch

If you're working on battery systems, power conversion, or embedded control and need an outside perspective—or just want to talk through an engineering problem—let's chat. Schedule a consultation or reach out on LinkedIn.