Awesome Engineering
Hardware engineering leadership
Principal-to-VP systems and product engineering — without the overhead of a firm. Part-time or by project.
WHAT I DO
how i work
Most product-development shops are built around their own bench — so you pay for their full org chart whether your project needs it or not, and you get whatever specialties they happen to have in-house. I work the other way around. I start with your problem, architect the path to a shippable product, and assemble the right specialists for that specific effort through a vetted network — scaling the team up or down as the work demands.The difference that matters: I don't hand you a list of contractors and step back. I stay accountable as the engineering leader through delivery, the same way I led hardware programs from concept to mass production at Starry. You get senior ownership of the outcome — without the overhead of a large firm, and without managing a half-dozen disconnected vendors yourself.
about
Andy Baisch, PhD, is a systems engineer and a builder at heart. As founder and principal of Awesome Engineering, he helps hardware teams cross the hardest gap in product development: the distance between a prototype that works and a product that ships at volume.Andy thinks in whole systems. RF, electronics, mechanical, industrial design, supply chain and the factory floor all show up in his work, along with how a decision in one quietly reshapes the rest. He learned to think that way by building.He spent seven years at Starry, most recently as VP of Hardware and Systems Engineering. He led the hardware organization from Series B through the company's public listing. He architected Starry's Comet customer devices: he directed the beamformer supplier's phased-array antenna design while running the electrical, mechanical, industrial design, and manufacturing teams. The millimeter-wave technology his teams designed and produced went on to anchor Verizon's acquisition of Starry. He has also served as VP of Manufacturing at Vibrant Composites.Across his career, Andy has brought more than 15 fully integrated hardware products to mass production, along with many more component and PCB respins. Today he works with hardware startups and OEMs as a fractional engineering and manufacturing leader. He is often brought in when an ODM or contract-manufacturing program has gone off track and needs to be recovered.He holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences from Harvard and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon, and is a named inventor on multiple hardware patents.
Let's build hard tech.
Whether you need fractional leadership, a full development effort, or help getting a stalled program back on track, send a few details and I'll get back to you.