André S Winkel.
Electrical Engineer building avionics and high-speed compute hardware.
Trajectory
Engineering hardware for aerospace and high-speed compute.
Planet
Summer 2025Intern, Electrical Engineering
Designed and tested high-speed digital PCBs and compute hardware for Earth-imaging satellites. Performed signal integrity analysis and hardware-in-the-loop testing for 6Gbps+ SerDes links.
Highlander Space Program
PresentElectrical Engineer, Payload
Leading design for CubeSat computational imaging hardware platform. Defining scope of liquid rocket payload and co-leading a hardware team of 10 engineers.
California Air Resources Board
Winter 2024PEMS Intern
Automated the ingestion of PEMS sensor data across 4 test vehicles and applied digital filtering techniques to raw exhaust telemetry.
Hardware Portfolio
From multi-layer FPGA accelerators to interactive embedded firmware.
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Raspberry Pi 5 Acceleration HAT+
8-layer FPGA accelerator featuring strict skew-matched routing for 800MT/s operation.
CUTIE-CITRUS CubeSat Computer
4-layer CM5 carrier board with controlled impedance MIPI CSI-2 and PCIe NVMe.
STM32 & IMU over Wi-Fi
Mixed-signal telemetry board featuring a 9-DOF IMU and a 2.4GHz PCB trace antenna.
Falling Sand Simulator
Interactive visualizer driven by IMU sensor fusion.
Custom Mechanical Keyboard
Custom Mechanical Keyboard featuring QMK firmware and matrix routing.
60W USB-C PD Solar Power Bank [WIP]
Solar MPPT