Ramin Firoozye
Technical Executive, R&D, and Builder
Innovation, R&D Engineering, new product development, and management. Especially interested in work on connected device technologies.
- Location
- Berkeley, California, United States
- [email protected]
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- @[email protected]
- raminfiroozye
Experience
– present
Founder, Technical CEO at 50Labs Inc.
Founder and Technical CEO of 50Labs Inc., a company building a next-generation AI-based gaming platform.
Highlights
- Patented AI-based gaming platform
- Browser-based AI interactions
- MCP-based game management
- MCP-based live system monitoring
- Mobile hardware support (iBeacon, NFC)
– present
Co-Founder, Senior Partner at Afterware
Co-Founder and Senior Technical Partner, using AI to maintain legacy-based systems.
Highlights
- AI-based system maintenance, testing, and deployment
- MCP-based interaction with live, running containerized application and application instance
- AI-based system maintenance, testing, and deployment
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Manager, IoT Systems at Pansonic R&D
Manager, IoT Systems, Panasonic R&D
Highlights
- Proposed new products in Eldercare, Healthcare, Moblie, and AI-based Home Assistance
- Filed 9 patents
- Managed development and release of Panasonic's IoT platform
- Hardware / firmware / software integration
- Managed IoT, Mobile, and Cloud teams
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Senior R&D Architect at Amazon Web Services
Technical Lead at AWS R&D and Envision Engineering Teams.
Highlights
- Projects incorporated IoT at large scale, cloud-based robotics, AR/VR, Graph Databases, voice recognition, text to speech, native mobile development, and use of the full range of AWS cloud-based services.
- Created and lead development of SimpleIOT, a patented serverless platform for creating secure, private, IOT devices. Released as open-source project in 2022.
- Piloted with a number of large industrial customers. Features included end-to-end security, firmware SDKs, MQTT, data anlytics, and integration with AWS AI/ML services.
- Demonstrated support for Augmented Reality real-time integration.
- Technologies used included: AWS CDK, Python, Typescript, React, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Cognito, Timestream, Grafana, S3, Cloudfront, Amazon Location, Arduino/C++, and Docker.
- Customers included: John Deere, Scientific Games/Light and Wonder, Emerson, Discount Tire, Nike, and Fortive. Many more under NDA.
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Senior Engineer at Amazon Lab126
Member of Wireless technical team
Highlights
- Worked on a variety of consumer-oriented connected devices including Alexa, FireTV, Fire Tablets, smart home, remote control products, and appliances.
- Technologies included Bluetooth, Zigbee, and Wifi firmware, system architecture, and scalable cloud infrastructure.
- Designed and shipped embedded wireless metric SDK. Integrated into all Alexa, FireTV, and Kindle devices from 2018 forward. Created custom Kibana dashboards for global monitoring of device performance at-scale.
- Deep-dive 'Cause of Error' analysis on product line that unblocked production. Helped implement solution. Device shipped on-time. Estimated sale of 100M+ units.
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CTO/Co-founder at Fluid Hardware
Secure Firmware Update on the cloud
Highlights
- Designed and developed an automated, secure over-the-air firmware update system. Support for ARM processor and update via BLE and WiFi. Also included mobile SDKs for iOS and Android.
- Developed SaaS cloud back-end using Python/Django, REST-APIs, and Docker. Responsive web dashboard using Vue.js
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Technology Consultant at RF Consulting
Technology consulting services for companies ranging from startups to multi-nationals
Highlights
- New Product Development
- Mobile : native apps for iOS and Android.
- Front-end: Responsive web apps using HTML, Javascript, CSS, and Flash.
- Back-end: Python/Django, REST, and Docker.
- Firmware: Bluetooth, BLE, WiFi, and LoRa. Arduino, FreeRTOS on ST, Nordic, TI, and Arduino devices.
- Clients included: Apple, AutoDesk, Earthlink, Ericsson, IBM, Intel, NASA, OneWheel, Oracle, Orange, Procter & Gamble, PG&E, Rockwell Collins, Sony, Taligent, and Toyota.
Education
BA in Software Development, English Literature, and Philosophy/Logic. from Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
Awards
11 Patents Awarded and Pending
Awarded: Hierarchical Universal Device Identifier (AWS). Pending: 50 Labs Inc: AI-based Gaming Platform. Panasonic: 9 patents filed (AI, IoT, User Experience, Healthcare, and more).
AutoPark: MacWorld Best of Show
Mobile App Development. Simultaneously featured on iOS AppStore front page and several national magazines.
IoT TFC Member
AWS Technical Experts Forum.
AWS Future Manager Program
Management Training program.
Languages
- English
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Fluency: Fluent
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- Web Development
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