About me

My name is Flavio Alves, an embedded systems designer from Brazil and founder of PHI Innovations.

I started my electronics engineer carreer in

My name is Flavio Alves, I am an electronic engineer with expertise in embedded systems design and founder of PHI Innovations.

My career started in 2003, working with firmware development. I had the opportunity to work in several hardware and embedded software projects for telecommunication, retail, aerospace, and payment applications.

In 2008 I started PHI Innovations. The company purpose was to support electronic companies with high skilled professionals in creating new products using high performance embedded microprocessors. We were pioneers in embedded Linux applications in Brazil.

Since 2018 the company changed its purpose. We created a new product target industrial Internet of Things (IoT) applications (Industrie 4.0). The new purpose is to support industrial, commercial installations to be more efficient using IoT technologies. As an (old) new start-up, we are please to have some Brazilian start-up awards based on our recent performance.

In 2019 I joined Toptal, where I am having the opportunity to work with amazing project all over the world.

The purpose of this blog is to share some of my recent experience in embedded systems. My current interests are:

  • NuttX operating systems
  • TinyML
  • C++ language

This blog is personal, and there is no relation to the company activities or products.