Funded hardware startups

Building complex systems across hardware, firmware, cloud, and security.

I help founders and technical teams make high-stakes architecture decisions early, reduce execution risk, and ship products that still work when they leave the lab and enter production. I work at the point where software, hardware, manufacturing, and security meet.

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About

I help founders and technical teams make high-stakes architecture decisions early, reduce execution risk, and ship products that still work when they leave the lab and enter production.

I am especially useful when a product needs one person who can reason across hardware, firmware, cloud, and security before the team is large enough to cover every layer separately.

System architecture for hardware-software products
Embedded software and real-time behavior
PCB and manufacturing-aware engineering
Cloud architecture and backend systems
Security-focused design

My background spans the full hardware-software stack, including an embedded operating system, novel network security and communication protocols, cloud architectures, and novel programming language.

Cloud Architecture Embedded Systems Security Architecture Technical Due Diligence Performance Optimization Systems Engineering

Services

One-off architecture reviews, technical due diligence, or long-term fractional support.

Fractional CTO / Chief Architect support
Hardware-software architecture review
Embedded firmware and protocol design
PCB design and component tradeoff review

Cloud / backend / operations architecture
Manufacturing-aware product engineering
Security and reliability strategy
Execution and performance optimization

My Work

Details available upon request. Some work may be subject to NDA.

Manufacturing-aware engineering: hardware-software products brought into production workflows.

Deep technical work: custom protocols, operating systems, and runtime tooling.

Optimization: execution, performance, and system-level optimization across hardware and software, by an IOI medalist.

Large-scale systems: online platforms serving more than 1 million monthly active users.

Public credibility: academic book publication, competition recognition, and startup leadership.

Android apps: a portfolio of applications including apps with over 1 million downloads.

Contact

For architecture reviews, technical due diligence, or long-term retainers, reach out directly.

Email: dom@kusalic.com
LinkedIn: Dom Kusalic

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