Radar Engineering Consulting
From waveform to perception.
End-to-end radar expertise.
Custom sensor design. Signal processing algorithm development. System architecture review. 30 years of shipping radar products across defense, autonomous vehicles, subsurface imaging, and aerospace.
Expertise
Focused Specialisation, Not Scattered Generalism
Custom Sensor Design
Hardware architecture, RF frontend design, antenna integration, and waveform optimisation for FMCW, SFCW, and pulsed radar systems.
Signal Processing & Detection
Range-Doppler processing, CFAR detection, beamforming, clutter rejection, and statistical estimation — algorithm design through to real-time implementation.
Embedded & FPGA Systems
Real-time FPGA gateware, embedded firmware, hardware-software co-design, and low-latency data path optimisation for radar processing pipelines.
System Architecture
Multistatic SAR, neuromorphic compute for radar, vital-signs sensing, and full-stack system design from concept through prototype validation.
Engagement
How I Work
Technical Advisory
Ongoing radar engineering advisor to your team. Design reviews, architecture guidance, signal processing validation.
Custom Sensor Design
End-to-end design support: requirements, RF architecture, signal processing algorithms, prototype validation.
Algorithm Development
Signal processing and detection algorithm design, from concept to validated implementation on your data.
Expert Assessment
Technology feasibility study, architecture review, risk assessment, or due diligence for radar-based products.
30 Years Across the Radar Stack
I’ve spent 30 years at the intersection of radar hardware, signal processing, and system design. Started in defense radar at Reutech Radar Systems in South Africa, then helped establish the digital backend instrumentation for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project, co-founding the international CASPER collaboration with UC Berkeley.
At Vermeer Corporation I spent 12 years leading wideband SFCW radar development for horizontal directional drilling obstacle detection — work that resulted in US Patent 9348020. From there, I created the technical blueprint for Joby Aviation’s first custom radar for eVTOL navigation, led radar sensor development for autonomous off-road perception at John Deere, and worked on neuromorphic compute architectures for radar at BrainChip.
Now as Sigma0, I partner with teams that need to solve hard radar problems: custom sensors, multistatic imaging, vital-signs sensing, and compute-efficient signal processing.
Recent Work
Current Engagements
Vital-Signs Radar
Non-contact physiological monitoring using radar-based respiration and heart rate detection for healthcare applications.
Multistatic SAR
System architecture and signal processing for distributed aperture synthetic aperture radar imaging.
Neuromorphic Compute
Mapping radar detection and classification algorithms to neuromorphic edge compute architectures for low-power inference.
Project details available under NDA upon enquiry.
How We Deliver
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Discuss Your Project
Got a radar challenge? Whether you need a quick architecture review or a long-term design partner, tell me what you’re building.