02Low-power RF / customer complaint
The board worked. The battery life did not.

Measured active, standby and transition current, then redesigned the RF board around its real duty cycle.
ResultReduced quiescent current below 10 µA, extending standby life and addressing the customer complaint.
03Manufacturing QA / line failure
A production test cannot depend on its inventor.

Built a multi-board fixture and traced an unstable UART state that appeared after bootloading.
ResultRemoved line-stop failures and left manufacturing with a repeatable unit-check path.
04Firmware delivery / remote product
The update path had to survive more than the happy path.

Joined Python tooling, a replacement bootloader, multi-chip communication and dual-DMA audio playback.
ResultDelivered an OTA audio pipeline with update, recovery and hardware behaviour treated as one system.