Hi, I'm Adi
Hardware systems engineer, founder, and tech enthusiast.
I’m a hardware systems engineer, founder, and tech enthusiast. I like learning how people use the tools we build, then turning that context into systems that make work clearer, faster, or safer.
Writing
Short build notes and essays from the places where systems, sensing, AI, and product work get tangled together.
2026-05-20
Part 3: The Embodiment Interface
If personal agents borrow robotic bodies, the missing layer is an interface for safety, privacy, permission, uncertainty, and accountability.
2026-05-19
Part 2: The Tools That Let AI Touch the World
RobotMCP, ROS, and vertical robotics stacks point toward embodied tool use, but tool calls are not the same as safe physical agency.
2026-05-19
What It Takes to Build Great Automated Test Platforms for Hardware Devices
A practical play-by-play on how teams test complex hardware systems, choose regression suites, and build automated validation around a delivery-drone example.
How I Work
I've previously built hardware-in-the-loop test systems, field sensing devices, inspection software, and startup products. The common thread is evidence: capture the right signal, make it traceable, and turn it into a decision someone can trust.
Start with the signal. Build the smallest rig, workflow, or interface that makes the problem measurable. Then make the result useful enough that the next person can act on it.
I’ve lived and worked across Edmonton, Kelowna, Vancouver, Montreal, Taipei, Austin, and Tokyo. That mix taught me to pay attention to context: the operator, the customer, the lab bench, the deployment site, and the awkward handoff between them.
My Toolkit
The tools change by project. The pattern usually does not: measure the system, automate the repeatable parts, and keep the interface honest.
Instrument toolkit preview
Sensors, cameras, fixtures, and data capture for systems where the first problem is knowing what is actually happening.
Selected Projects
A mix of startup work, internal tools, sensing systems, and product experiments that show how I like to build.
Work Experience
Founder
Founded a company to enable intelligent inspection capabilities for physical infrastructure using visual and spatial intelligence tooling for construction, city infrastructure, and industrial teams.
Key Achievement
Drove development of an automated 3D inspection platform and established industry partnerships for pilot studies.
Founder & CEO
Built a business intelligence and data gathering platform for service-based SMBs, enabling operational insight, customer understanding, and growth.
Key Achievement
Scaled to 2,000+ monthly active users, supporting 35 businesses across Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea.
Technical Program Manager, Hardware & Systems
Owned the hardware and systems test program, building custom automated hardware-in-the-loop test platforms supporting product development through EVT and DVT.
Key Achievement
Enabled 3x faster testing through automated platforms and reduced consumable wastage, saving approximately $400K.
R&D Engineer
Developed and integrated sensing systems to optimize industrial extraction and processing workflows.
Key Achievement
Designed and productized a plant yield measurement tool, enabling farmers to assess crop readiness in-field at 95% lower cost than lab-based testing.
R&D Engineer
Coordinated projects between industry partners and academic researchers to deliver novel technical solutions for industrial sensing problems.
Key Achievement
Developed sensing systems for chemical detection across sewer gas monitoring, natural gas, biomedical applications, and remote sensing.
