Summary
Kris Bahar is an owner and lead electrical/software/firmware engineering consultant with 12 years of experience designing end-to-end hardware and embedded systems, from custom PCB and power-management design to real-time control firmware and system bring-up. He helps early-stage startups rapidly prototype and iterate weekly on hardware while co-developing the firmware and automation needed to scale validation and manufacturing. Kris has led hardware and firmware teams at product companies like Xponent Power, driving AI-assisted workflows that accelerate debugging, documentation, and release cycles—bringing practical LLM and prompt-engineering techniques into embedded development. His skill set spans test engineering, DFM, sensor algorithms, and human-in-the-loop systems, giving him a rare blend of hands-on circuit-level craftsmanship and systems-level software architecture. Based in California with a Computer Engineering degree from Georgia Tech, he pairs technical sales and customer-facing design-in experience with program management to translate ambiguous requirements into shippable products. An unconventional strength: he embeds generative-AI tooling directly into engineering workflows to shrink prototyping timelines while preserving safety-critical real-time behavior.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Indonesian