I build BSPs, peripheral drivers, OTA flows, and connected-device firmware for STM32 and Silicon Labs platforms across BLE, Cellular, GNSS, MQTT, and cloud telemetry. My background also includes IEEE-published research in cyber-physical systems security.
Tools, platforms, and protocols I work with most
Low-level firmware, connectivity, silicon platforms, and test automation
Board Support Packages and peripheral drivers built from the ground up on STM32 and Silicon Labs — UART, SPI, I²C, CAN, ADC, GPIO, PWM, timers. HAL layers for portability across platform variants, plus bootloader and board bring-up.
DMA controllers in single-shot and circular modes, full clock-tree configuration (HSI/HSE/PLL, AHB/APB prescalers, peripheral enables), power domain control, sleep / deep-sleep / standby transitions, clock gating, and wake-up handlers.
Multi-threaded firmware with tasks, queues, semaphores, mutexes, ISR-safe APIs, and interrupt-to-task synchronization. Low-level architecture work across interrupts, memory protection, timing, and register-level access.
Short-range, fieldbus, cellular, and location data paths from device firmware through secure telemetry pipelines, including AT-command parsers, encrypted transport, and cloud ingestion patterns.
JTAG/SWD with ST-Link and J-Link, stop-mode debugging, GCC / GDB / GNU ARM toolchain, logic analyzers and oscilloscopes for protocol and signal-timing validation, plus profiling and static analysis.
PyTest and GoogleTest unit suites, Jenkins-driven regression across BLE / Cellular / GNSS / CAN, HIL testbeds for cyber-physical validation, power analysis, and GNSS simulation for repeatable field-condition coverage.
Selected projects spanning firmware, wireless systems, and tooling
IoT Systems / Embedded Architecture / Cloud Integration
Architected an end-to-end embedded IoT data pipeline that collected data from BLE devices, buffered it locally, and uploaded it to AWS over cellular connectivity, with design decisions driven by reliability, bandwidth, and system constraints.
Where the firmware, validation, and research work shipped
Jun 2022 – Mar 2025 | Milwaukee, WI
Jan 2024 – Mar 2025
Jun 2022 – Dec 2023
Jan 2021 - Jun 2022 | Kingsville, TX
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Jan-May 2021, Aug-Dec 2021
M.S. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, 2020-2022
AI-Based Ransomware Detection for Digital Substations
B.S. Electrical & Electronics Engineering, 2016-2020
On-body Humidity Sensing Antenna for BAN Applications over 5G Networks
IEEE peer-reviewed work on cybersecurity, AI, and embedded systems
What teammates say about the way I build
"Syed is an accomplished IoT engineer who will be an excellent addition to any team he joins. In my team, he consistently helped other team members while he also took on tricky feature development and data analysis. Point Syed in the right direction, and he will take on big problems quickly."
Frank Welz | Engineering Manager at Milwaukee Tool
"I had the pleasure of working with Syed Raqueed Bin Alvee, and I consistently found him to be adaptable, thoughtful, and technically capable. He demonstrated a strong ability to learn new tools and languages quickly and apply them effectively, even in unfamiliar problem spaces. Syed brings a balanced skill set that spans both software development and data-driven problem solving, and he approaches challenges with curiosity and persistence. Just as importantly, he is kind-hearted, genuine, and a pleasure to work with. I would gladly work with Syed again and highly recommend him to future employers."
Matt Halenka | Senior Principal Firmware Engineer at Milwaukee Tool
"Has result-driven mindset. Check off task upon finish."
Thomas Liu | Embedded System Engineer at Modular Medical
"Working with Syed for over a year has been more than a pleasure. He's a capable engineer with great passion in machine learning, IoT and embedded system. To his peers, he's a great mentor, friend, and supporter regardless of circumstances. Apart from effectively handling difficult tasks using in-depth knowledge and tools at hand, he's always curious of problems of his colleagues, helping bouncing off ideas and cultivating a unified work environment for everyone."
Hanyu Zhu | Firmware Engineer at Milwaukee Tool
"Syed helped me grow significantly as an EDP. His selfless mindset leads him always willing to lend a hand. No matter what type of question I have, Syed is always willing to listen and try his best to help me out. He is urgent and responsive and always willing to hop on a call. Even in situations where he may not know the answer directly, he always points me in the right direction. He also does a great job at explaining things for anyone to understand. On top of all of that, he carries a consistently positive attitude that energizes the workspace. I think Syed's contributed greatly to the one team mentality in the CHI office."
Abby Haluska | Firmware Engineer II at Milwaukee Tool
"Syed is an accomplished IoT engineer who will be an excellent addition to any team he joins. In my team, he consistently helped other team members while he also took on tricky feature development and data analysis. Point Syed in the right direction, and he will take on big problems quickly."
Frank Welz | Engineering Manager at Milwaukee Tool
"I had the pleasure of working with Syed Raqueed Bin Alvee, and I consistently found him to be adaptable, thoughtful, and technically capable. He demonstrated a strong ability to learn new tools and languages quickly and apply them effectively, even in unfamiliar problem spaces. Syed brings a balanced skill set that spans both software development and data-driven problem solving, and he approaches challenges with curiosity and persistence. Just as importantly, he is kind-hearted, genuine, and a pleasure to work with. I would gladly work with Syed again and highly recommend him to future employers."
Matt Halenka | Senior Principal Firmware Engineer at Milwaukee Tool
"Has result-driven mindset. Check off task upon finish."
Thomas Liu | Embedded System Engineer at Modular Medical
"Working with Syed for over a year has been more than a pleasure. He's a capable engineer with great passion in machine learning, IoT and embedded system. To his peers, he's a great mentor, friend, and supporter regardless of circumstances. Apart from effectively handling difficult tasks using in-depth knowledge and tools at hand, he's always curious of problems of his colleagues, helping bouncing off ideas and cultivating a unified work environment for everyone."
Hanyu Zhu | Firmware Engineer at Milwaukee Tool
"Syed helped me grow significantly as an EDP. His selfless mindset leads him always willing to lend a hand. No matter what type of question I have, Syed is always willing to listen and try his best to help me out. He is urgent and responsive and always willing to hop on a call. Even in situations where he may not know the answer directly, he always points me in the right direction. He also does a great job at explaining things for anyone to understand. On top of all of that, he carries a consistently positive attitude that energizes the workspace. I think Syed's contributed greatly to the one team mentality in the CHI office."
Abby Haluska | Firmware Engineer II at Milwaukee Tool
Outside work: music, photography, travel, and hands-on tinkering
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Guitar RigBSP development, device drivers, firmware from silicon to cloud — open to full-time embedded or platform engineering roles.