BUSINESS / PRODUCT / ENGINEERING

TECHNOLOGY
LEADERSHIP.
REAL
PRODUCTS.

Luciano Cismondi
Engineering → Product → Leadership

I help businesses and manufacturers define, develop and improve products. I connect business needs with product decisions and the engineering required to make them happen.

↗ Let's talk about your project

01 / HARDWARE02 / EMBEDDED SYSTEMS03 / AUTOMATION04 / IoT

// THE STARTING POINT

Before development,
decide
what is worth building.

What problem does it solve? What architecture does it need? How much investment will it take? And how can it evolve? I connect these questions with the engineering needed to turn an opportunity into a product.

01 / BUSINESS

Is it worth the investment?

Value, investment and risk to decide where to focus resources.

02 / PRODUCT

What should we build?

The user's problem, requirements and product priorities.

03 / TECHNOLOGY

How do we make it viable?

An architecture that accounts for development, manufacturing, maintenance and future improvements.

// WHERE I CAN HELP

YOUR PRODUCT'S
NEXT STEP.

I can work with you from the initial definition or join a project already underway.

Define what to build

You see a need or opportunity, but decisions are still needed before development. Assess alternatives, feasibility and priorities.

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Define the architecture

Turn requirements into a viable architecture. Decide what to develop, buy or integrate.

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Take a product further

The product needs to evolve, become simpler or move into production. Review the design and prepare its next stage.

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Lead technology decisions

Teams, suppliers and decisions need coordination. Align requirements, ownership and priorities with the business.

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// FROM BUSINESS TO ENGINEERING

THE WHOLE PICTURE.
CLEAR DECISIONS.

My involvement can begin at any of these stages, depending on the project's progress and needs.

01 / UNDERSTAND
Business, users, market, constraints and goals.
02 / DEFINE
Product, requirements, alternatives and technology strategy.
03 / DESIGN
Hardware, software, communications, control and integration.
04 / DEVELOP
Prototypes, validation and coordination.
05 / INDUSTRIALIZE
Costs, manufacturing, certification, suppliers and ongoing development.

// FOUR LAYERS · ONE COMPLETE VIEW

STRATEGIC
THINKING.
TECHNICAL
DEPTH.

Every product decision connects these four layers. My role is to keep that relationship clear, from investment to implementation.

01 Business: Feasibility, investment, risk and strategy.
02 Product: Requirements, roadmap, user experience and costs.
03 System: Architecture, integration, communications and control.
04 Engineering: Hardware, firmware, software and electronics.

Business decisions guide engineering. What engineering reveals also informs business decisions.

// EXPERIENCE IN PRACTICE

Read the case studies (ES) ↗

DECISIONS THAT
TAKE SHAPE.

01 / HVAC · PRODUCT AND OPERATIONS

RENEW THE PRODUCT.
TRANSFORM HOW
IT IS BUILT.

Renewing controls, digital fabrication, processes and the team. Working directly with a manufacturer's leadership to connect product development and operations.

Responsibilities, decisions and outcomes

Context: A manufacturing business with slow growth and a product range and infrastructure in need of renewal.
Challenge: Modernize HVAC controls and development and production tools, coordinating products, facilities and the team.
My role: Working directly with management and leading the renewal of products, infrastructure and processes.
Actions: Renew the thermostat range and introduce in-house prototyping, standardized processes and new production tools.
Architecture: Integrating electronics and touch or capacitive interfaces with product design, prototypes and injection molds.
Outcome: Renewed the range with touchscreens, larger LCDs and backlit capacitive buttons. Created a digital fabrication workshop with 3D printing, laser cutting and UV printing.
Learning and impact: Completely refurbished the warehouse with coded storage locations, modernized production tools and strengthened the team to help new staff learn.

↗ Explore the HVAC case (ES)

02 / REFRIGERATION · PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT

FROM THE FIRST
PROTOTYPE TO
PRODUCTION.

Co-founding and leading the technology behind a beverage-cooling product: prototyping, validation, early funding rounds and international industrialization.

Responsibilities, decisions and outcomes

Context: Packaged beverage consumption in retail and public spaces.
Challenge: Combine rapid cooling and the right drinking temperature with efficient energy use.
My role: Co-founder and CTO: built the prototype from scratch, validated the concept and contributed to funding and market research.
Actions: Connect technical development with early funding rounds, research and market testing to move toward industrial production.
Architecture: Integrating hardware, control, mechanics and AI to cool packaged beverages.
Outcome: Validated the concept and took development through to international industrialization during my involvement.
Learning and impact: The foundations established during development supported the product's subsequent expansion into international markets.

↗ Explore the journey (ES)

// TECHNICAL AND FINANCIAL JUDGMENT

Building also means
deciding where to invest.

My education in project evaluation complements my engineering and product experience: feasibility, investment and risk are parts of the same decision.

Master's in Project Evaluation (ES) ↗Analysis of feasibility, investment and risk.Electronic Engineering (ES) ↗Hands-on experience in electronics, systems and control. View my thesis project.

A career combining technical development, product decisions and team coordination, including experience as a co-founder and CTO.

Explore my background (ES) ↗

// TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

TECHNOLOGY THAT
SERVES THE PRODUCT.

Each product needs a different combination of capabilities. Architecture connects these disciplines with requirements, costs and the system's future development.

Hardware and electronics: Electronic architecture, product design, sensors, interfaces and communications.
Embedded systems: Firmware, connectivity and hardware–firmware integration.
Automation and control: Control, automation, industrial systems and HVAC.
IoT and connected products: Connected devices, protocols, platforms and telemetry.
Software and architecture: System architecture, integration, APIs and tools.
Applied artificial intelligence: AI applied where it delivers a tangible advantage for the product.

// EXPLORATION

All projects (ES) ↗