Senior Embedded Engineer · Porto, Portugal

I build the intelligence inside real products.

From microcontroller firmware to production-ready hardware, I turn complex ideas into dependable embedded systems for marine technology, electric vehicles, IoT and renewable energy.

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Portrait of Ayinde Olayiwola, Senior Embedded Engineer
Ayinde Olayiwola Hardware · Firmware · Software
16+years in embedded systems
12years in hardware product manufacturing
10years as a tech lead
Embedded C/C++ Assembly Language Programming PCB Design Embedded Linux RTOS IoT System Architecture

Engineering across the entire product stack.

I am a hands-on embedded systems engineer and technical leader with experience spanning circuit design, PCB development, low-level firmware, embedded Linux, graphical interfaces and production integration.

My career has taken me from Nigeria to New Delhi and now Portugal. Along the way, I have built technology for open-source education, electric and autonomous vehicles, connected products, smart hospitality and autonomous underwater systems.

I enjoy the point where disciplines meet: translating a product requirement into an architecture, validating it on the bench, guiding a team through the hard problems and helping production deliver it reliably.

Built in the field, not just on paper.

A career across three countries and multiple technology sectors.

2024 — Present

Oceanscan Marine Systems & Technology · Matosinhos, Portugal

Senior Embedded Engineer

Developing hardware, firmware and software for advanced marine systems. Working with engineering and production teams across architecture, PCB development, device integration, user interfaces, validation and manufacturing support.

Marine systemsFirmwareProduction
2023 — 2024

Quantum Leap · Setúbal, Portugal

Head of Hardware Engineering

Led hardware engineering for connected products including smart water monitoring and intelligent tabletop systems for restaurants and hotels.

IoTTeam leadershipProduct development
2017 — 2019

ByteHub Embedded · Lagos, Nigeria

Co-founder

Co-founded an embedded-systems education company built around practical, open-source learning. The CloudX Microcontroller platform helped students move from rapid prototyping to real embedded development.

Open sourceEducationCloudX
Earlier career and education
2013 — 2016

Embedded Systems Engineer

Geoglobe Energy Technology · Nigeria

2010 — 2012

Engineering Intern

Scitech Energy Technology · Nigeria

2013 — 2017

National Diploma, Computer Engineering

Yaba College of Technology · Lagos

Systems designed to solve real problems.

Selected commercial, open-source and independent product work.

Front view of the Euler Motors three-wheel vehicle instrument cluster PCB and display
Euler Motors · 3W instrument cluster
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Electric mobility · Euler Motors

3W instrument cluster & vehicle electronics

Designed and built Euler Motors' first in-house instrument cluster for three-wheel logistics vehicles, alongside a production vehicle control unit and motor-control systems—with real-time control, vehicle communications, diagnostics and production integration.

SAFERTOSCANFOTAKiCadDSP
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Open-source hardware · ByteHub Embedded

CloudX Microcontroller

A Microchip PIC-based development platform created to make embedded systems education more accessible. Supported by 500+ C drivers and libraries and used by thousands of students in engineering projects.

PICEmbedded CEducation
CloudX M633 Microchip PIC development board and SoftCard programmer
CloudX · Open-source learning platform
Lua restaurant table request device with Request, Payment and Feedback buttons communicating with a waiter's smartwatch
Lua · Connected restaurant service
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Hospitality technology

Lua smart restaurant service system

A wearable connected to wireless table buttons so guests can request service, payment or assistance. Designed to improve response time, staff coordination and the guest experience.

ESP32-S3LVGLWirelessWearable
Two Frostini ESP32-S3 temperature monitoring boards, one connected to a DS18B20 temperature sensor
Frostini · Remote temperature monitoring
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Low-power IoT · Food safety

Frostini temperature monitoring system

A low-power remote monitoring system built around the DS18B20 temperature sensor for restaurants and food-service environments. Frostini tracks storage temperatures to support food safety, reduce spoilage and simplify record keeping.

DS18B20ESP32-S3Low powerCloud IoT
A fleet of yellow LAUV autonomous underwater vehicles prepared on a marine operations deck
LAUV · Autonomous underwater vehicles
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Autonomous marine systems

LAUV autonomous underwater vehicles

Embedded hardware and software contributions for autonomous underwater and marine products, bringing together communications, sensing, user interfaces and production-ready engineering.

Embedded LinuxTelemetryIntegration

From the register level to the production line.

I work across the boundaries between electronics, firmware, software and the teams that turn prototypes into dependable products.

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Firmware & real-time

Assembly language programming, Embedded C/C++, Python, bare metal, FreeRTOS, SAFERTOS, CMSIS-RTOS, ChibiOS, bootloaders, OTA/FOTA and device drivers.

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Hardware engineering

Schematics, multilayer PCB design, power electronics, ARM Cortex-M/A, PIC, AVR, STM32, ESP32 and design-for-production.

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Embedded Linux & UI

Ubuntu, Buildroot, Yocto, Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone, NVIDIA Jetson, Linux device drivers, Qt/QML and LVGL.

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Connectivity & tools

CAN, UART, I²C, SPI, RS-232/485, Ethernet, MQTT, BLE, Wi-Fi, LoRa, KiCad, Altium, Eagle, oscilloscopes and PCAN.

Writing for the engineers coming next.

I share practical lessons from building embedded products and growing in the profession.

Read on Medium
  • 01Reusable Embedded Software
  • 02Object-Oriented Embedded Programming in C
  • 03Embedded Systems: How to Become an Industry Expert
  • 047 Ways to Become a Full-Stack Embedded Software Engineer
  • 05Programming STM32 on Linux

Let’s build something dependable

Have an embedded product challenge?

I am open to conversations about engineering leadership, technical consulting, product collaboration and ambitious embedded systems.