Ramin Firoozye
Senior R&D Architect and Technical Manager
Innovation, R&D Engineering, new product development, and management. Especially interested in opportunities to work on connected device technologies to extend the SimpleIOT open-source IoT platform (https://simpleiot.net).
- Location
- Berkeley, California, United States
- raminfiroozye@gmail.com
- raminf
- raminfiroozye
Experience
– present
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 (https://simpleiot.net), a patent-pending serverless platform for creating secure, private, IOT devices.
- 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.
- Released as open-source project in 2022 (https://github.com/awslabs/simpleiot).
- Technologies used included: AWS CDK, Python, Typescript, React, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, API Gateway, Cognito, Timestream, Grafana, S3, Cloudfront, Amazon Location, Arduino/C++, and Docker.
- Patent: 'Hierarchical Universal Device Identifier.'
- 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.
- Developed responsive web dashboard using Vue.js.
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Technology Consultant at Consultant
Technology consulting services for companies ranging from startups to multi-nationals
Highlights
- High-level architecture and design
- 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.
- Prior experience available on demand.
Education
BA in Software Development, English Literature, and Philosophy/Logic. from Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
Awards
Patent Pending
Hierarchical Universal Device Identifier
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
- Fluency: Fluent
- Farsi
- Fluency: Conversational
Skills
- Web Development
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- Writing
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- Cooking
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- Electronics
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