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

SMPS, Power Distribution, E-fuses, BLDC motor drivers, soft-start topologies, GaN, Battery Management.

U2FIRMWARE

Embedded Firmware

Embedded C. Code Generation and tooling with Python. PIC33 / dsPIC, STM32, ESP32 / ESP-IDF, FreeRTOS, BLE and WiFi stacks, CAN, SPI, I2C, UART, USB, ETHERNET. OTA update pipelines.

U3LAYOUT

PCB Design & Layout

Altium Designer and KiCad. Modern hierarchical schematic capture. High-speed + HDI, power distribution, 8+ layer stackups, EMC/EMI design, design for manufacturing.

U4VEHICLE

Automotive & Vehicle Systems

12V & 48V architecture, passive safety systems, Automotive E-fuses. ISO-26262. CAN / LIN / Ethernet 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.

U6ANALOG

Analog Electronics

Sensing and measurement circuits, signal conditioning, filter design. Novel discrete circuit designs. Controlled impedance and signal transmission.

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