Summary
Julen Ugalde is an R&D and Innovation Consultant with eight years of hands-on experience bridging applied research and technology transfer across regional, national and European projects including FP7 and H2020. He blends telecommunications engineering expertise—spanning UWB, WLAN, Bluetooth, ZigBee, TCP/IP and RFID—with practical skills in embedded and software development (C, C#, Java, Matlab) and electronic CAD tools. Julen has led hardware R&D teams and managed multidisciplinary projects from requirements and resource monitoring to coordinating production, sales and external partners. Based in Álava, he brings a pragmatic focus on turning cooperative research outcomes into deployable solutions and has a track record of working at the intersection of industry and academia. An often-overlooked strength is his fluency across OS platforms (Windows, Linux, Android) and simulation/design suites, which helps accelerate prototyping and technology transfer.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Colegio San Viator
Telecommunications engineering, Computing, electronics, communications, Telecommunications engineering, Computing, electronics, communications at Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Spanish, English, Basque