Erik Welsh

Erik Welsh is the Chief Technical Officer and Applications and Systems Manager for Octavo Systems. He has over 17 years of industry experience architecting and designing embedded hardware and software systems.

Erik comes to Octavo after spending 3 years as the Principal Systems Architect at Mango Communications developing FPGA based platforms for cutting-edge wireless research. He began his career at Texas Instruments in SoC design eventually leading SoC Security Architecture development and managing engineering support of customers in the PC industry.

His design experience ranges from wireless platforms to IoT devices. Erik has contributed to open source projects including Linux and WARP (Wireless Open-Access Research Platform). He has software expertise from low-level drivers to high level embedded applications. Erik has presented and taught workshops at dozens of industry and peer-reviewed conferences and universities. He currently holds patents in the area of SiP technology. Erik earned a BSEE and MEE from Rice University.