Dilawar Ali

Based in Pakistan and working with teams worldwide. Open to relocation, visa sponsorship, and ambitious embedded product work.

My story

From my first IoT gateway to leading products across eight industries.

I graduated in Electrical Engineering and started my career developing embedded firmware for cellular gateways and low-power end devices. That foundation taught me to think across the whole system: MCU constraints, radios, power states, bootloaders, cloud protocols, and the realities of field updates.

At u-blox, I moved deeper into LTE Cat 1, LTE-M, and NB-IoT modem development and validation. I expanded automated coverage, investigated network traces, improved stress testing, and worked with complex simulated cellular environments. It sharpened the way I approach reliability and standards compliance.

In December 2021, I began freelancing part-time alongside my full-time role at u-blox. In February 2023, I moved into self-employment full-time and grew Bit Byte into a four-person product-development team. Since then, I have helped clients move more than 20 products from idea or proof of concept toward production.

I am especially interested in deeper-technology products where embedded intelligence, connectivity, and careful systems engineering create a meaningful advantage.

Contact

Let’s connect.

Education

Engineering foundation.

  • BSc Electrical Engineering

    University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

    September 2013 — May 2017

  • Continuous professional learning

    3GPP systems, cellular validation, Zephyr RTOS, low-power architecture, secure boot, FOTA, and connected product delivery.

Technical range

Comfortable from the register map to the network trace.

Embedded CPerlARM Cortex-MSTM32ESP32nRF52/53/54/91Zephyr RTOSFreeRTOSLTE Cat 1LTE-MNB-IoTBLEGNSSMQTTLwM2MFOTASecure bootLow-power systemsValidation automation3GPP analysis

Beyond engineering

Sports keep me competitive, collaborative, and grounded.

01 · Football

Team awareness

I enjoy the pace, structure, and coordination—small decisions building into a complete result.

02 · Cricket

Patience & strategy

A game of adaptation, discipline, and knowing when to defend or take a calculated risk.

03 · Polo

Precision under pressure

I appreciate the combination of control, speed, anticipation, and decisive execution.

Languages

Communication.

  • Urdu

    Native proficiency

  • English

    Professional working proficiency

Working style

What clients can expect.

  • Clear milestones

    Visible progress, known risks, and decisions documented early.

  • Production thinking

    Testability, failure modes, updates, power, and support considered from the start.

  • Long-term ownership

    A practical path from proof of concept to maintainable product.

Next conversation

Tell me what you are trying to build—or what is currently getting in the way.

I am happy to discuss embedded architecture, cellular product risks, validation, or a complete delivery engagement.

Write to me