Proven track record of developing innovative products from concept to production, with over six years of professional experience overseeing hardware, firmware, and electrical engineering processes.

 

 

Experience

  • Electrical Engineer (Jan 2020 to Present)                                                         Luraco Inc. --- Arlington, TX

    Achievements:

    • Developing a state machines driven, peripherals loaded embedded firmware for i9 chair motherboard and daughter
    • Leading the development of all new upgraded hardware/electrical and firmware designs for upcoming i9 massage chair (6 different boards, 12 motors, 8 sensors, three different microcontrollers), company's flagship product
    • Delivered and developed a brushless DC motor design, twice powerful, twice efficient, ESD safe, and three times less BOM cost as compared to previously selling design (ESD passed in first go out of eight tries with previous BLDC hardware)
    • Completely upgraded the hardware for the i9 Massage chair making it reliable, efficient, feature-rich, fewer components, and less costly (Fully responsible for hardware and firmware development)
    • Slashed cost of up to 70 percent on the prototype and production, of printed circuit boards (PCB) and PCB assembly (PCBA) and by changing vendors
    • Saved production cost of up to 30 percent, by sourcing the same components from different vendors
    • Caught and fixed four years old production bugs in hardware and firmware related to different products
    • Introduced and improved precise current measurement techniques by routing kelvin connections to shunt resistors
    • Improved hardware to ESD proofing, reducing EMI, grounding planes issues, and handling of different grounds
    • Actively involved with the technical support team to solve bugs and handling customer's feedback
    • Improvements, additional features, and bugs fixed in Qt-based embedded application for the remote
    • Working together in a team on hardware and embedded assignments from home, during a COVID-19 lockdown situation
    • TI MSP430 low-level drivers and state-machine code non-blocking code development
    • Saved company a total of $50,000 in a direct saving within a year

  • Design Engineer (Computer Hardware/Electrical) (Jan 2019 to Dec 2019)            Rex Robotics ---Naperville, IL

    Achievements:

    • Setup a low budget research and development laboratory for board bring-up, rework, debugging and testing (capable of developing in-house two-layer board with 10mil minimum trace width)
    • Hacked Arduino hardware based on STM32 microcontrollers to have our own customized firmware and device drivers using STM32 toolchain (HAL libraries)
    • Introduced the new design tool for rapid prototyping and to reduce product design cycle
    • Designed and developed a high-speed board 1.5Gbps for multiple CSI-2/Parallel, camera streams with Xilinx Zynq (Patent pending and in collaboration with Avnet Inc. to manufacture and sell it)
    • Device drivers, device tree binding, Kernel configurations, software/hardware interfacing with Linux video framework (V4L2) and Gstreamer for stereo vision applications
    • Developed a complete embedded and hardware solution for an autonomous rover. Including schematics, PCB, embedded code for STM32 microcontroller and python scripts

  • Graduate Research Assistant (Jan 2017 to May 2018)                     Eastern Illinois University  Charleston, IL

    Achievements:

    • Designed, and programmed a self-navigated robot with C at the National Robotics Challenge in 2018
    • Led a team of five to design a partial automated robot and program with C to an Arduino microcontroller at ATMAE robotics competition in 2017 (Won fourth position, out of 10)

  • Design Engineer (Jun 2012 to Aug 2016)                                                          And-Or Logic — Islamabad, Pakistan

    Achievements:

    • Crafted a high-speed PCB (1Gbps and 3.4Gbps) motherboard in 15 days with zero rework required
    • Slashed project timelines by three months by implementing a new hardware designing software for the company
    • Created low-level, highly efficient APIs for multiple microcontrollers, later distributed company wide. Reduced time and labor for each project by 10%. Enhanced firmware 10% by modifying low/high-level APIs, enabling data to almost send in real time
    • Drastically improved debugging performance, designing and implementing a new debugging device
    • Developed power systems up to 6KVA (inverter, charge controllers)
    • Cut BOM costs by 20% ($200 per prototype) through negotiations and partnerships with Chinese vendors; researched available resources and changed the equivalent part number
    • Championed improvements to smart battery firmware/hardware. Optimized APIs, removed extra loops, and altered hardware components to increase self-discharge from three days to six months
    • Enhanced hardware module in a production model, improving battery performance from two to 30 days; created a 90% reduction in BOM costs
    • Achieved successful production of 70 units with 99.9% accuracy

    Founder (Apr 2006 to Aug 2016)                                                                       IbrahimLabs — Rawalpindi, Pakistan

    Achievements:

    • Hardware solution provider according to customers’ requirements (locally and internationally)
    • Building own innovative ideas and hardware solutions to automate certain daily tasks
    • Working on projects-based solutions to learn and earn by doing rapid prototyping
    • Writing blogs for open-source coding/hardware for young engineers to learn
    • Running a blog; code, examples and simulations are open source https://www.ibrahimlabs.com/
    • Please visit my website for a few of my personal portfolio: https://www.ibrahimsangi.com/project.html

     

    Education

    • Master's in Science (Computer Technology)

      August 2016 ~ May 2018  Eastern Illinois University Charleston, Illinois
      • An active member of Research Mentorship Meeting (RMM) held every week
      • An active member of robotics design team (Also took part in multiple competitions i.e. ATMAE robotics competition)

    • Bachelor's in Science (Electronics) 

      August 2008 ~ June 2012  COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Islamabad, Pakistan
      • Designed quad copter as a final year Project
      • Won Campus  Bronze Medal

  • Languages

    English Professional and Working Proficiency

  • Certifications

    • Computer Technology Eastern Illinois University  
      Cybersecurity Eastern Illinois University  

    • Skills and Abilities

      • Embedded Systems Design
      • Programming Assembly/C/C++
      • Circuit Designing and Analysis
      • Power Electronics design
      • Digital Signal Processing
      • Product Design and Development
      • Schematic and PCB Designer
      • Production and Troubleshooting Skills
      • Hardware and Software debugging
      • Surface mount and through-hole devices soldering
      • Mechanical Concepts
      • Teamwork
      • Independent and Self-Motivated
      • Time and energy management
      • Multitasking
      • Flexible and adaptable
      • Vision and challenge oriented
      • Believe in quality and continual improvement
      • Leadership and pressure handling skills
      • Bringing up boards
      • SQL/PHP/JavaScript/HTML

    • Tools

      • Altium Designer
      • Proteus
      • MATLAB
      • MPLAB X IDE
      • Orcad layout
      • Solidworks
      • Windows/Linux
      • Keil µvision IDE
      • Microsoft Office
      • Orcad Capture
      • Oscilloscope
      • Power supplies
      • Logic Analyzers
      • SVN, GitHub
      • IAR Embedded workbench
      • Microsoft Visual Studio
      • Code Composer Studio
      • Cadence PCB editor
      • Soldering Iron
      • Multi-meter (DMM)
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