Hi, my name is

Maksim Isayenka/VE3EUN.

I build RF front-ends, embedded firmware, and autonomous systems.

Electrical engineering student building RF, embedded, and autonomous systems.

About Me

I'm an electrical engineering student at York University focused on analog RF, embedded systems, and controls.

Currently embedded systems engineer on the York Robotics Society rover team, with prior research at UTIAS on YOLO-based navigation and MATLAB flight simulation.

Toronto, ON
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering
York University
May 2029

Experience

  1. Embedded Systems Engineer

    York University Robotics Society

    Engineered STM32 firmware for EMC2303 fan control and ADC-based battery monitoring. Configured I2C/SMBus and hardware interrupts for low-latency sensor acquisition on the planetary rover platform.

  2. Controls and Navigation Research Intern

    UTIAS Flight Systems and Control Lab

    Trained YOLOv5, YOLOv7, and YOLO Pose for high-speed gate detection. Built MATLAB/Simulink flight sims with PID control and automated Python ML data pipelines.

Projects

TinyVitals — Winner of Best Hardware Hack, Hack the 6ix 2026

AI-assisted baby monitor on Raspberry Pi 5 / QNX: contactless heart rate and breathing via rPPG, IMU sleep-position and incline alerts, plus a live dashboard with AI wellness summaries.

HardwareRaspberry PiQNXComputer vision

Project L.A.R.P Drone

Counter-UAS quadcopter with custom RTOS flight controller firmware, DShot motor signaling, and sub-millisecond sensor fusion — 500k+ views and venture interest.

DronesEmbeddedC/C++Flight control

ESP32 Based RF Monitor and Ambient Noise Sensor

High-frequency RF power monitor using the AD8318 log detector (1 MHz–8 GHz), conditioned for ESP32 ADC sampling and Wi-Fi data logging.

ESP32RFPCBHardware

Highly Stable, One Step Conversion, Superheterodyne FM Receiver

Discrete-component FM receiver using a superheterodyne chain: tuned RF front end, Si5351 LO, LC IF filtering, and MC3361 narrow-band demodulation to audio.

RFFMPCBHardware

STM32-Based Modbus RTU Soil TH/NPK and Environmental Monitor

Industrial-style soil and environment node: STM32 Modbus RTU master over RS485 to a multi-parameter probe (TH, NPK, pH, salinity, TDS) with robust parsing and protection.

STM32ModbusRS485Embedded

ESP32-Based Active HF Frequency Tracker for Kenwood TS-520

HF tracking and digital display add-on for a legacy Kenwood TS-520: buffers internal VFO signals, measures with the ESP32, and shows live operating frequency.

ESP32HFAmateur radioHardware

Computer Vision-Guided Autonomous Drone Navigation & Flight Simulation

Vision models for gate detection and pose estimation coupled with MATLAB flight simulation and closed-loop control for autonomous racing-style quadcopter navigation.

Computer visionMATLABDronesPython

Project Resonance

Wrist-worn fall detector that fuses accelerometer and heart-rate data to confirm real falls, then alerts via haptic, audio, and LCD — fully offline, ~2 s latency.

ArduinoC++PlatformIOWearable

Settlr

Neighbourhood-matching web app: users set priorities via an AI chatbot or map controls; neighbourhoods are ranked from web-scraped data and shown on a Leaflet heatmap.

ReactFlaskMongoDBGemini

MealToGo

Personalized meal platform backed by a YOLOv8 food detector trained on a custom Roboflow dataset for fast, health-profile-aware recipe suggestions.

YOLOv8Computer VisionPythonRoboflow

VisiRead

Accessibility reader that uses a device webcam with OpenCV and PyTesseract to scan printed text and speak it aloud for people with low vision.

PythonOpenCVPyTesseractAccessibility

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Skills

Languages

  • C/C++
  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • Verilog
  • MATLAB

Embedded

  • ESP32
  • STM32
  • Raspberry Pi
  • RTOS
  • QNX
  • I2C
  • SPI
  • UART
  • Modbus RTU
  • RS485
  • CAN
  • DMA
  • PlatformIO
  • ROS
  • OpenCV

Tools

  • Git
  • STM32CubeIDE
  • LTspice
  • KiCad
  • Altium
  • SolidWorks
  • Quartus Prime

Research

  • Simulink
  • Gazebo
  • YOLO
  • PID

Web

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Flask
  • FastAPI
  • HTML/CSS

Certifications

  • RF and millimeter-Wave Circuit Design — Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Qualcomm Technologies 5G Introductory-Level Certification
  • Basic with Honours Amateur Radio — VE3EUN

Education

  • Bachelor of Electrical Engineering

    York University · Toronto, ON