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Available for engagements · Copenhagen, Denmark
Connected hardware,
from concept
to production
Senior embedded leadership for startups and product teams. I own the firmware, hardware integration, and technical direction, so you ship a reliable product without building an in-house embedded team.
Trusted by teams at Energy Hub Altina
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What I do
Senior embedded expertise,
without the full-time hire
Embedded Project Lead
I take ownership of the embedded side end-to-end: architecture, firmware, hardware integration, debugging, and production readiness. Working alongside your hardware, product, and software teams.
Firmware C/C++RTOSHW-SW integrationProduction readiness
Technical Review & Audit
A focused engagement assessing your architecture, codebase, and hardware-software integration. You get a clear roadmap of the highest-risk gaps and what to do about them.
ArchitectureRisk mappingClear roadmap
Fractional Embedded CTO
Part-time, retainer-style technical leadership across your embedded roadmap: making architecture calls, reviewing decisions, keeping direction coherent across workstreams.
RetainerAdvisoryTechnical leadership
10+
years embedded systems experience
About Helix Embedded
Senior leadership.
Full ownership.
Real results.
I'm Timothy Adu. Most embedded products fail at the seams: between hardware and firmware, between bench and field, between prototype and production. That gap is where pilots slip and budgets disappear.
Helix Embedded exists to close that gap. You get senior embedded leadership with clear accountability: the same person setting the technical direction is the one responsible for the outcome.
16 weeks Prototype to deployment, clean-tech battery startup
EU & North America Clients served across two continents
Client feedback
What clients say
"Timothy is a very professional and friendly person. Working with him shows how teamwork and synergy should be. A very proactive and resourceful engineer."
Nicholas Papahristos
OrganOx
"Tim is an outstanding problem-solver. The hardest and most critically important capacity to have in terms of bridging complex issues to the hard requirement of those solutions having to work competitively in the real world."
Fernando Gramaglia Andrade
Donkey Republic
"Timothy is an excellent team player who consistently demonstrates a willingness to help his colleagues and goes out of his way to ensure that everyone is working effectively and efficiently."
Nataliia Yukhta
Adtomic Communications
Insights
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IoT
Firmware Development for Cellular IoT Devices
Key considerations when developing firmware for cellular IoT devices, from power management to modem driver architecture.
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Career
The Young Embedded Software Engineer I
A flashback on my experiences when I started in the field over a decade ago. Nuggets of wisdom for embedded newcomers.
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Building a connected hardware product?
The first conversation is a free 30-minute discovery call to see whether I'm the right fit. No pressure either way.