Summary
Conrad Salinas Jr. is a Principal Engineer with 11+ years building embedded systems, firmware, and regulatory-ready medical devices, now designing smart robotic toys at Intelino. He blends hands-on hardware and firmware expertise—co-inventor on multiple patents and contributor to FDA 510(k), IEC 60601 and FCC-certified products—with product-minded systems engineering across startups and defense-funded manufacturing automation. His background ranges from leading FIPS-140-2 cryptographic firmware efforts for wearable authenticators to shipping IoT compression therapy devices and next-generation pulsed-field ablation systems. Comfortable in solo consulting and cross-functional R&D teams, he frequently owns everything from electrical design and firmware to ISO 13485 documentation and test protocols. An avid endurance athlete, he applies the discipline of marathons, centuries and Ironman training to persistent problem-solving and long development cycles.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego