Power electronics, embedded firmware, and PCB design.

Voltworks Garage is the independent practice of an electrical engineer with fifteen years of experience, including nearly a decade at Tesla designing power systems that ship in millions of vehicles. Available for consulting engagements from early architecture through production-ready hardware.

Capabilities About Contact

SIG_BUS

Skills

End-to-end hardware capability, from power stage design to firmware and board layout.

U1POWER

Power Electronics

E-fuses, soft-start topologies, PMOS & GaN switching, flyback and buck converter design, high-voltage safety per IEC 62368-1.

U2FIRMWARE

Embedded Firmware

ESP32 / ESP-IDF, FreeRTOS, STM32, PIC33 / dsPIC, BLE and CAN protocol stacks, OTA update pipelines.

U3LAYOUT

PCB Design & Layout

Altium Designer and KiCad, high-speed differential pairs, 4+ layer stackups, design for manufacturable, cost-conscious fabrication.

U4VEHICLE

Automotive & Vehicle Systems

48V architecture, passive safety systems, CAN / TWAI networks, e-bike and electric motorcycle power systems.

U5THERMAL

Thermal & Mechanical

Passive and active cooling, thermal interface material selection, enclosure design, mechanical modeling in SolidWorks.

U6AUDIO

Audio & DSP

I2S audio pipelines, Class D filter design, speaker enclosure acoustics, embedded audio decoding.

DATA_OUT

Projects

Selected hardware and firmware work. Full case studies on the way.

P1CASE STUDY

Full portfolio coming soon

A closer look at the power electronics, firmware, and PCB projects behind this practice.

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GND_RTN

Get in touch

Describe your project and I'll respond within one business day.

J1DIRECT LINE

Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, available for remote and on-site engagements. Well suited to hardware and firmware projects that need a single engineer with full-system ownership.

zach@voltworksgarage.co