I'm an Electrical Engineer (M.Sc., Ghent University) with 10+ years in automotive manufacturing at Volvo Cars — and I'm currently making a deliberate pivot into embedded systems engineering.

My background is in BIW manufacturing strategy, complex vehicle programme launches, and industrial automation. What I'm building now is hands-on embedded depth to match that systems-level foundation.

• Embedded Learning Journey – Phase 1
  Structured progression through bare-metal C on STM32 — GPIO, timers, UART, interrupts, and beyond. Each module is documented with notes and working code.

• Learning C fundamentals from first principles (private repo, may open-source selectively as it matures)

• Exploring FreeRTOS task scheduling and real-time design patterns on STM32

• Building small ESP32-based IoT projects as applied practice (sensor logging, MQTT, OTA)

Embedded STM32 ESP32 Arduino C C++ FreeRTOS (learning) UART SPI I²C GPIO PWM

Toolchain STM32CubeIDE PlatformIO Git Python (scripting)

From my engineering career PLC concepts AutoCAD FMEA Lean Manufacturing Systems Design

Before focusing on embedded, I spent 10 years at Volvo Cars in progressively senior roles:

• Engineering Architect (BIW Lean Design & Early Investigations) — defining manufacturing concepts for next-generation platforms
• Area Leader BIW — led a 50M€+ programme launch in Charleston, SC, USA
• Equipment Engineer → Area Leader across multiple vehicle programmes in Ghent, BE

That experience gives me an unusual lens for embedded work: I understand production constraints, hardware reliability requirements, and the cost of getting things wrong at scale.

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering — Ghent University (2010–2015)

• Bachelor thesis: Intel Galileo shield for robotics system design
• Master thesis: Reconfiguration of wearable antennas through feed-line bias

LinkedIn · alexander.vindelinckx@gmail.com

Based in Destelbergen, Belgium. Open to embedded engineering roles and collaborations.