Topic
Power electronics
Converters from 500 VA to 1 MVA and 400/800 V automotive platforms.
Never studied it; learned it by owning products from schematic to certificate. Critical power at GE, then automotive high-voltage conversion at BRUSA, then a simulation and analysis toolchain built to make those decisions repeatable.
Experience
Where it was practised
2016–2018; 2020–present
BRUSA Elektronik / BRUSA HyPower
Power-conversion architecture, product engineering, system leadership, and technical business development.
2025–2026
HTWG Konstanz
Applied power-electronics and systems teaching grounded in industrial development practice.
Engagement recorded; detailed dates withheld
Vishay
Specialist engineering support at the boundary between components and power-electronics applications.
2018–2020
NTB Buchs
Applied research and technology transfer in energy systems and power electronics.
2013–2016
GE Critical Power
UPS power electronics, regulatory qualification, laboratory validation, and new-product introduction.
2008–2010
Politecnico di Torino
Research spanning RFID, low-noise optical electronics, robotics, GaN characterization, and FPGA signal processing.
Projects
What got built
pyPLECS
Python tooling that turns one-off PLECS runs into reusable simulation workflows.
Open-source contributor
GeckoCIRCUITS contribution
A runtime fix protected by circuit-level regression evidence.
Creator and maintainer
pygeckocircuit
A Python wrapper that drives GeckoCIRCUITS simulations through its REST API.
Creator and maintainer
wavecraft
A YAML-defined waveform generator that emits stimulus files for four different simulators.
Creator and maintainer
Double-pulse tester
Double-pulse test simulation and post-processing that produces switching-loss maps for power devices.
Creator and maintainer
thermalkli
An Octave command-line toolbox for heatsink design and semiconductor thermal analysis.
Creator and maintainer
Power-electronics FFT utilities
Spectral analysis helpers for converter waveforms, in Python and MATLAB.
Open-source contributor
Transistor Database contribution
Sustained contribution to an open-source tool for managing and comparing power-transistor data.
Creator and maintainer
Choke AC model fitting
Fitting measured choke impedance to an equivalent circuit a SPICE simulator can use.
Creator and maintainer
HVDC datacenter simulator
A bottom-up model of the AI rack power chain, built to derive the tolerance specifications that do not exist yet.
Creator and maintainer
powerbus
Stability analysis for DC busses loaded by many constant-power converters.
Creator and maintainer
UPS front-end reference model
An executable average-value model of a three-phase uninterruptible-supply rectifier front end.
Creator and maintainer
SystemGraph
Modelling a system as a typed component graph so cost, efficiency, availability, and fault trees come from one topology.
Creator and maintainer
Traction toolbox
Rebuilding a vehicle-driven traction design tool as a reproducible study rather than a spreadsheet.