Kevin Dewald

Staff Engineer

2023

Pushing the performance of generative AI to the very limits of what’s physically possible.

Founder

2024

Founder

2020

Embedded Systems and Firmware Engineer

2020 - 2023

Neuralink is developing ultra-high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers.

Global Entrepreneur in Residence

2020 - 2020

Part of the Global Entrepreneur in Residence program at the Venture Development Center, providing mentoring and guidance to students and other entrepreneurs.

Firmware Engineering Lead

2020 - 2020

Pison is creating the next generation of nerve-sensing and micro-gesture recognition technology. • Managed the roadmap definition, development initiatives and project deliveries of a team of three engineers. • Implemented data acquisition, behaviors and custom communication formats over BLE based on the Nordic NRF52840 chipset. • Designed and implemented a CI/CD platform for firmware distribution based on PyForms/Django. • Built a cross-platform library to provide a standardized API to control the OS Bluetooth subsystems from a C++ application. • Extended the existing cross-platform gesture processing library to allow for automatic training, calibration and execution of ML models.

Freelance Engineer

2019 - 2020

• Developed a cross-platform signal processing library written in C++. • Developed a sample manipulator in Javascript to test human accuracy for a data labeling platform.

Lecturer

2018 - 2019

Lecturer in Electronics III, a course focused on digital electronics. Main responsibilities include providing problem solving classes to students, assisting in course lectures and course materials preparation and updating.

Co-Founder

2015 - 2019

At Spectro we are experts in digitizing physical spaces, giving visibility and context to data to facilitate decision making. As the responsible for Hardware R&D: • Designed and developed a distributed IoT sensor infrastructure with self-organizing and self-healing capabilities, with each sensor producing around 80 megabytes of raw data per day. • Focused the hardware and firmware design to reduce operational complexity, allowing for large deploys with minimum human overhead. • Supervised the creation and execution of the development roadmap. As the responsible for Data Science: • Managed a team of two data scientists in their daily tasks and algorithm research efforts. • Developed internal tools to reduce cloud execution costs. • Worked on the productive implementation of algorithms. As the responsible for Finance: • Wrote software to help automate internal processes. • Managed billing, accounts receivable and accounts payable. • Oversee month-end and year-end close process. Among the technologies used are: • C99 - C++11 • Python - Pandas - Pyspark - Django • Java • PowerBI • Docker • AWS Stack

Project Engineer

2015 - 2016

Participated in a project financed by the Armada Argentina regarding the development of radar data acquisition hardware/software and pulse deinterleaving techniques with statistical inference. Among the software technologies used were: • Altium Designer • VHDL on Altera Quartus • C99 - C++11 • MATLAB • Java