Samuel Berendsen

About Samuel Berendsen

Hardware engineer with 8 years building connected devices from the ground up across industrial IoT, medical robotics, and asset tracking. Started in the technical work: circuit design, supplier qualification, regulatory certification, and NPI. Over time the work that energized me most was upstream of the engineering itself, figuring out what to build, why it mattered commercially, and how to bring the right people along to get it done.My Georgia Tech MBA added the strategic and financial understanding to go with the engineering foundation. I sit comfortably at the intersection of both. Some of my most satisfying work has been taking a problem nobody had fully defined yet, building the analytical case around it, and driving it to a decision and execution.I am driven by solving meaningful problems that sit at the edge of what is known, where good answers require both analytical rigor and some creativity to get there.

Experience

1. Senior Electrical Engineer

   Cognosos, Inc.

   Jul 2024 — Present · Atlanta, GA, US

   Own the product direction for a next-gen IIoT asset tracking platform, translating customer needs and market gaps into hardware architecture decisions and working across firmware, electrical, supply chain, and leadership to execute.Drove a 50% improvement in GPS accuracy by identifying the performance gap, evaluating competing hardware solutions, selecting the right component stack, and running a structured field trial whose results became a funded company priority.Extended battery life 30% through systematic power analysis across the full hardware stack, identifying the biggest loss contributors and driving the component and firmware changes to fix them.Identified an underserved market opportunity for tracking lower-cost assets, evaluated feasibility with vendors and the research team, and presented a data-backed recommendation to leadership on whether and how to pursue it.

Education

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• Berry College

  Bachelor's degree, Dual Degree Engineering

• Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business

  Executive MBA