Vlad S.

I am a passionate, punctual and results-driven hardware engineer focusing on electronic systems with an in-depth experience of all practical aspects of product design. I enjoy working on complex and diverse projects with various applications such as the industrial, automotive, IoT and medical sectors. Services: • Electronic/Hardware product design, including but not limited to system design, component selection, schematic drawing, PCB layout & routing, reviewing and troubleshooting. • Prototyping, assembly and validation of boards with up to hundreds of SMD components with own tools and equipment. • Advising on project feasibility, cost estimations. • Arranging turnkey manufacturing, helping with scaling a prototype into mass manufacturing, dealing with 3rd parties such as PCB plants, component suppliers, test laboratories, machining & injection molding shops. Skills: • Multi-layer PCB design with up to 10 layers • Mixed signal design with high speed interfaces such as Gigabit Ethernet, USB FS/HS, HDMI, DRAM, LVDS and others. • Analogue design with dedicated IC’s and discrete components with a focus toward audio electronics and sensor interfacing. • Digital design with discrete logic gates, microcontrollers of any variety and FPGA’s. • Power converters of various topologies including the custom magnetics. • RF design of LNA, oscillators, filters and power amplifiers. Integration of RF modules. • Thermal computations and simulations using FEA. • Mechanical design of enclosures, seals and of assemblies with moving parts. • Rendering of PCB’s and assembled products for presentation purposes • Embedded software with C and computer firmware/drivers. • GNU/Linux • System modeling, simulation optimization using SPICE, Matlab/Octave