Romans Sarkisovs

Electrical engineering student who likes building things that have to work in the real world - calibration rigs, sensor firmware, custom boards. Comfortable down at the register level in C and up at the application layer in Python.

Experience

Junior Embedded Engineer, Intern Summer 2024

Weedbot

• Built calibration devices and improved the computer-vision odometer used to track machine movement.
• Wrote C firmware connecting a Raspberry Pi and PIC32 to sensors over low-level protocols.
• Designed PCBs in KiCad, made Python tooling for the team, and modelled parts in SolidWorks.
• Measured distance from camera frames using OpenCV and Lucas-Kanade optical flow.

Projects & Research

Latvian Voice Assistant Evaluation (research paper) Sep 2023 to Mar 2024

Riga Technical University

• Tested how well Latvian speech-recognition models hold up for home-assistant use.
• Built a minimal Raspberry Pi rig to benchmark each model's accuracy and speed.

Eco-Electric Car (vertically integrated project) Jun 2023 to Oct 2023

Riga Technical University

• Helped develop an eco-electric car for the Shell Eco-marathon competition.
• Simulated the electric motor to find settings that squeezed out more range.

Robotics Club Projects Sep 2023 to Feb 2024

Riga Technical University

• Built a timing device for the robotics club using an ESP32 and time-of-flight sensors.
• Ran machine-learning experiments on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier.

FIRST Global Robotics Challenge High School

Latvian National Team

• Wrote the robot control program for the REV DUO kit in JavaScript.
• Kept the code in git and wrote the team's technical documentation.

Education

BSc Electrical Engineering Expected 2028

Eindhoven University of Technology

Technical Skills

Languages

C, C++, Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, CMake

Hardware

STM32, PIC32, AVR, ESP32, Raspberry Pi, J-Link, KiCad

Tools

Linux, git, gdb, Eclipse, SolidWorks, OpenCV

Focus

Embedded development, PCB design, computer vision, 3D modelling