Michael Macaluso

Mr. Macaluso joined IoTecha as a co-founder and EVP of Engineering. Prior to joining IoTecha, Michael held a senior engineering management position at STMicroelectronics. Mr. Macaluso is an effective multi-disciplinary engineering manager with nearly 20 years’ experience in data communications, embedded software, hardware, signal processing, ASIC, and SoC development.

Michael Macaluso has been working in the area of high speed powerline communications from its inception. Holding a Bachelor’s of Science in Computer Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Michael began early undergraduate research under the direction of Dr. Dino Manikopolus in the field of high-speed powerline communications. In 1997, with Dr. Manikopolus, Michael was part of the team that founded one of the early powerline communication companies name Peak Communications Technology. Through several corporate and name changes, this team and IP was acquired by STMicroelectronics in December of 2010.

One of the most experienced engineers and engineering managers in the powerline communications field, Michael has lead the development of two SoC devices (Arkados’ AI-1100, and STMicroelectronics ST-2100); both successful on first tape out. Michael was responsible for all aspects of conception to production for both SoC devices, leading the development of the SoC architecture, and participating in hands-on verification of its implementation. Michael led the architecture of the ST2100 para-virtualized software to realize a cost effective single processor solution combining the benefits of software MAC flexibility, managing the challenging tasks of hard real time response, while also incorporating a hypervisor to run customer applications under Linux.