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Embedded Systems Leader / Battery-Powered Industrial Sensing / Device-to-Cloud Reliability

Rajveersinh
Raol

Hi, I’m Raj. Firmware Engineering Manager & Product Lead at AlumaPower. I ship industrial devices end to end, from the electronics to the cloud.

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About

Embedded systems leader with 9+ years shipping industrial devices end to end: electronics, RTOS firmware, on-device DSP, wireless connectivity and the device-to-cloud boundary. As a founding engineer at Pulse Industrial I designed and built a battery-powered LoRaWAN predictive-maintenance sensor platform for industrial valves. Before that, four years shipping real-time DSP firmware for power-system protection relays. Today I lead firmware across all electronics at AlumaPower as engineering manager and product lead, and I still write code, review designs and debug on the bench every week.

What I’m working onProjects

P/01Exploring

Monday → Friday Hardware Bring-up

A system that starts on Monday with five plain statements of what a device should do. By Friday the PCB is built and the firmware is ready. You run the basic tests and you’re ready to go.

  1. MonFive statements
  2. Tue–ThuPCB + firmware
  3. FriBasic tests · ready
P/02Exploring

AI Hardware Bring-up & Manufacturing Platform

An all-encompassing hardware lab connected to an AI model that knows everything about the board. It brings up the board, runs all the inspection and testing, and talks to every piece of lab equipment.

  1. Bring-upPower-on to firmware
  2. InspectInspection & test
  3. LabDrives every instrument
P/03Writing

Untitled Book

Memoirs of my topsy-turvy life as an engineer in startups: no project, then ideas, then making products and deals, the craziness of a startup, and the sunset.

Stoic-style reflections on what I’ve learnt and observed, my deeds, and their consequences.

Revision historyExperience

AlumaPower Inc.

Kitchener, ON

Firmware Engineering Manager & Product Lead

Sep 2025 — Present
  • Own architecture and delivery of high-reliability C firmware across all electronics for energy modules, staying hands-on in code, design reviews and bench debugging.
  • Product lead for a new industrial product from prototype through DFMA; authored the PRD, KPIs and 1–5 year productization roadmap (prototype, alpha and beyond), now used as internal templates.
  • Moved product KPIs from engineering metrics such as power density to measurable customer use-case outcomes.
  • Lead a firmware team of 2–4 engineers and a cross-functional product team of 10 across firmware, hardware and mechanical; helped hire co-op, intermediate and senior hardware and firmware engineers as the team grew, and led the transition to an overseas contract manufacturer.
  • Owned a digital twin project, leading the architecture and development of a digital twin of the physical product; primary point of contact for key vendors.
  • Built repeatable firmware releases: SemVer and release-candidate workflow, build traceability embedded in every image, and CI/CD across multiple repositories.

Firmware Engineer Lead

Jun 2024 — Sep 2025
  • Architected AlumaPower OS, the team’s first POSIX-like OS abstraction on FreeRTOS and ARM Cortex-M, separating application and driver layers behind a defined interface; cut board bring-up and application development on new hardware from days to hours.
  • Built remote debugging into the platform: configurable logging at application, RTOS and driver level, stored across RAM, flash and EEPROM, with a pipeline to export and sync all of it for root-cause analysis.
  • Architected device-to-cloud telemetry, command and configuration pipelines using MQTT with Azure IoT, including the message formats; defined CAN, UART and serial interfaces for distributed systems and edge gateways, with Python host tooling.
  • Mentored many co-op, junior and intermediate engineers into stronger technical contributors.

Pulse Industrial Inc.

Waterloo, ON

Founding Engineer, Embedded Systems

Jan 2022 — Jun 2024
  • Took a battery-powered LoRaWAN predictive-maintenance platform for industrial valves from first prototype to 7,000+ units deployed with 3+ years of field operation.
  • Designed hardware and firmware for low-power ARM sensor nodes with an 8-year documented battery life from duty-cycle and transmission budgeting.
  • Implemented the bootloader, secure boot and OTA firmware updates with rollback; provisioned per-device identity during manufacturing.
  • Primary interface between the embedded systems team and the data science and analytics team.
  • Designed the sensor payload formats and integrated firmware with LoRaWAN network and cloud platforms (AWS IoT, OrbiWise) through LTE-backhauled gateways; built Python diagnostics and analytics on AWS IoT and MongoDB.
  • Primary point of contact for customer issues and installations; performed hands-on installation for every deployment and owned field reliability, using device telemetry, remote diagnostics and lab equipment to root-cause power, RF and environmental failures.
  • Led Class I Div 2 (hazardous location), IP66/IP67, FCC and ISED certification, including EMC/ESD pre-compliance and design fixes.
  • Built automated hardware-in-the-loop manufacturing test, calibration and provisioning systems with design-for-test, supporting 1,000+ devices in production.
  • Performed schematic review, board bring-up, SWD/JTAG debugging and PCB design (KiCad, Altium); raised incoming inspection pass rate from 60% to 97%; moved production to a contract manufacturer and served as its primary point of contact.

ERLPhase Power Technologies

Winnipeg, MB

QNX Developer

Sep 2021 — Dec 2021
  • Designed and implemented multi-threaded C++ applications on QNX RTOS for industrial power systems.
  • Resolved field-reported issues, working across firmware and hardware to isolate root cause.

DSP Developer (Intermediate)

May 2017 — Aug 2021
  • Shipped many production firmware releases of real-time DSP, protection and synchrophasor (IEEE C37.118) algorithms in C/C++ for power-system relays and recorders, where sampling and timing integrity are critical.
  • Developed low-level communication stacks (I2C, USB-HID, UART, SPI) and FPGA firmware (VHDL, Vivado HLS) with hardware and FPGA designers.
  • Built pytest test automation and supported compliance and hardware-in-the-loop testing; mentored junior engineers.

SpecificationsSkills

EmbeddedC/C++ / ARM Cortex-M (STM32) / FreeRTOS / QNX / Bootloaders / Low-level drivers
DSP & PowerFFT / Filtering / Decimation / Real-time signal processing / Battery-life budgeting
ConnectivityLoRaWAN / LTE gateways / Wi-Fi / MQTT / CAN / USB / UART/I2C/SPI
FleetOTA with rollback / Secure boot / Device identity / Telemetry / Remote diagnostics
HardwareSchematics / Bring-up / EMC/ESD / DFT / KiCad/Altium / SWD/JTAG / Oscilloscopes / Logic analyzers
CertificationClass I Div 2 / IP66/IP67 / FCC / ISED
Cloud & ToolsAWS IoT / Azure IoT / Python / Linux / git / CMake/Make / CI/CD / Docker
LeadershipPRD / KPIs / Roadmaps / DFMA / Team building / Contract manufacturing

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BackgroundEducation & Awards

Degree

B.Sc. Electrical Engineering

University of Manitoba

2012 – 2017
Program

Advanced Manufacturing – Digital Transformation

University of Waterloo

2024
Award

Ted Glass Award

IEEE Winnipeg

2017

Let’s build something real.

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