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André S Winkel.
Electrical Engineer building avionics and high-speed compute hardware.

Trajectory

Engineering hardware for aerospace and high-speed compute.

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Planet

Summer 2025

Intern, Electrical Engineering

Designed and tested high-speed digital PCBs and compute hardware for Earth-imaging satellites. Performed signal integrity analysis and hardware-in-the-loop testing for 6Gbps+ SerDes links.

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Highlander Space Program

Present

Electrical Engineer, Payload

Leading design for CubeSat computational imaging hardware platform. Defining scope of liquid rocket payload and co-leading a hardware team of 10 engineers.

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California Air Resources Board

Winter 2024

PEMS Intern

Automated the ingestion of PEMS sensor data across 4 test vehicles and applied digital filtering techniques to raw exhaust telemetry.

Hardware Portfolio

From multi-layer FPGA accelerators to interactive embedded firmware.

Raspberry Pi 5 Hardware Acceleration HAT+

8-layer FPGA accelerator featuring skew-matched routing for 800MT/s.

XC7A FPGA PCIe DDR3L

CUTIE-CITRUS, CubeSat Computer

4-layer CM5 carrier board with controlled impedance MIPI CSI-2 and PCIe NVMe.

CM5 MIPI CSI-2 PCIe CAN

Falling Sand Simulator

Interactive visualizer driven by IMU sensor fusion.

C/C++ Sensor Fusion I2C SPI