Engineering Manager - Device Team at KONUX

July 2025 - Current

As Engineering Manager of the Device Team at KONUX, I lead the development of embedded systems that power our industrial IoT solutions for the railway sector.

• Technical Leadership: Defining and delivering firmware architecture, setting technical roadmap for embedded systems
• Strategic Planning: Translating business objectives into executable technical plans through quarterly OKR planning
• People Management: Fostering collaborative, ownership-driven culture while empowering team growth and problem-solving
• End-to-End Delivery: Overseeing architecture, implementation, team processes, and budget planning
• Engineering Excellence: Ensuring alignment with security, maintainability, and best practices
• Cross-functional Collaboration: Working with stakeholders and engineering leaders to align product vision with daily execution

Senior Firmware Developer at KONUX

September 2020 - July 2025

🔧 Accelerating Rail with Secure, Connected IIoT & Edge‑AI in Harsh Environments

Developed rugged, intelligent sensor systems for predictive maintenance on rail infrastructure, bridging hardware, firmware, and connectivity.

• Bare‑metal C++ IIoT sensor development: Engineered compact, battery-powered C++-based sensors running directly on microcontrollers for field deployment
• New device architecture using Zephyr RTOS (C): Designed and launched multiple sensor generations leveraging Zephyr RTOS—building scalable, modular firmware for industrial IoT
• Cellular connectivity (LTE‑M): Integrated energy-efficient LTE‑M modems to reliably transmit sensor data from remote locations
• Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE): Researching BLE for alternative communication protocols
• Edge‑AI research & prototyping: Developed on-device ML models for anomaly detection and predictive maintenance, advancing real-time intelligence at the edge
• Diverse sensor and bus systems: Piloted subsystems including vibration, temperature, and pressure sensors; interfaced via SPI, I²C, UART, and more for robust data acquisition
• Electronic component review & selection: Curated PCB/electronic components to meet rugged industrial standards
• Standards & certifications research: Conducted compliance research for the EU's Cyber Resilience Act, ensuring alignment with CE marking and CRA essential requirements

Software Engineer EnOcean

April 2015 - August 2020

• Development of firmware for energy harvesting devices and used radio stacks (BLE/EnOcean/Zigbee and others) in C/C++.
• Architecture and Software design
• Specification of parts of protocol stacks and work for the EnOcean Alliance.
• Introducing and setting up of continues integration and testing Systems, which is based on pytest,jenkins and raspberry pis.
• Planing of projects and internal quality standards.
• Developing and mainting different PC Tools like DolphinView and EnOcean Link
• Supervising of Students.

Intern at the software department EnOcean

Jan 2010 - March 2015

• Internal webpages development (php)
• Statistics Tool for production data (wpf/c#)
• Automated testing for periphal interfaces of the 8051-DolphinChip
• Developing Firmware for different µcs (MSP430/PIC/DolphinChip) in asm, c and c++.
• Small other pc tools in c#/.net and c++