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description: 'About What is this I am an electrical engineer with over 20 years of experience writing embedded software, designing electronics, and everything in this area of work. This webpage is created by myself and is intended to give you some introduction to me and my work. more What is Embedded Lean? Lean…'
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# About

## What is this

I am an electrical engineer with over 20 years of experience writing embedded software, designing electronics, and everything in this area of work. This webpage is created by myself and is intended to give you some introduction to me and my work. [more](#service)

## What is Embedded Lean?

Lean: Characterized by economy and efficiency achieved as by eliminating waste, cutting labor costs, shortening lead times, etc. --- (collins dictionary)

Quality has a price. Complexity has a price too. They are not the same thing.

I put effort into requirements engineering, testing, risk management, documentation and maintainable software. Those things lay the foundation for quality. That is work worth paying for.

(By the way: I deliberately separate these activities and do only one at a time, if I can.)

What I question is cost that does not improve the result. An expensive tool does not automatically produce better engineering, and adding process does not automatically improve quality.

Here is an example: KiCad or Altium Designer? Altium Designer is widely regarded as an industry standard, so it is often a default choice. A strength of Altium Designer is that it's better streamlined for large-scale electronics product lifecycles. But licensing costs are not the only drawback. KiCad can also do the job in many cases, and it has two valuable features that Altium Designer does not offer:

1. Since it's open source, I can extend it with my own tooling. I can even add my own feature if I need it.
2. You don't need a license renewal just to make a fix to a product ten years later.

So if Altium Designer is required, I use it. Otherwise, I prefer KiCad, since that will not only reduce costs but may also improve maintainability.

That is what “Embedded Lean” means to me: take quality seriously, without making the work more complicated or expensive than it needs to be.

# Embedded Systems Engineer on Demand

I can work across all areas of embedded systems engineering.

- microcontroller hardware and firmware development
- laboratory hardware test setup, assistance and supervision
- help with your existing projects
- anything technical in a similar field
- project management
- complete product development
- compliance certification

# Get to Know Each Other

- short-term engineering work on a small product, for example: 
    - IoT sensor
    - retrofit
    - adapter
    - reverse engineering
    - customization of some product
    - additional support for your project
    - review

# Introductory offers for new customers

- free one-hour lecture on software maintainability
- free code review

[Contact](https://embedded-lean.com/contact)

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