About
Tawan Thintawornkul
I design and build control systems for environments where reliability is not negotiable - safety-critical railway software, embedded firmware, and industrial machine control, from design through deployment.
By day I develop ATO and ATP train control software (SIL-4/SIL-0) at Alstom, deployed across metro and APM networks in India — Kanpur, Agra, Delhi Line 7 — Malaysia's Klang Valley Lines 1 and 2, and the US at Tampa and Miami airports.
In parallel I take on independent engineering projects — industrial automation, IoT systems, and robotics — end-to-end from hardware through software. Outside of engineering work, I write about system design and build tools for my own workflow — this site being one of them.
Experience
Alstom (Thailand) Ltd.
2023 – PresentVATC Software Engineer
ATP/ATO CBTC train control (SIL4/SIL0) across metro and APM networks in India — Kanpur, Agra, Delhi Line 7 — Malaysia's Klang Valley Lines 1 and 2, and the US at Tampa and Miami airports.
AlstomMotion & Control Laboratory - Chiang Mai University
2020 – 2022Researcher
Autonomous mango-harvesting robot with 7-DOF manipulator; RGB-D perception and deep-learning segmentation pipline. Teleoperation and motion control for the CMU AIYARA mobile robot deployed in 5 hospitals during COVID-19.
Motion & Control LabIndependent
2020 – PresentAutomation & Product Engineer
End-to-end control systems for industrial & service machines. - Transformed a manually operated concrete mixing plant into an automation-ready system. - Designed and implemented proof-of-concept of automated food process machine, including data acquisition system & process fine-tuning. - Designed and implemented vending-based car washing controller & payment system. - Vehicle washing, vacuum chambers, IoT & Agriculture, Crane of Cement concrete plant and food production equipment. - Led development of IoT-based agricultural automation: fodder greenhouse control and automated poultry feeding system.
Tawan's PortfolioFICT Associate Co., Ltd.
2018 - 2020Business Solution Officer
Vehicle washing machine product development from feasibility through prototype; popcorn vending machine R&D covering UI/UX, control logic, and production line maintenance.
Machine Pop Co., Ltd
2018 - 2020R&D Engineer
Led popcorn vending machine development from concept to prototype – product design, UI/UX, automatic feeding control logic. Maintained and improved hot-air popcorn production lines including control cabinet upgrades.
FoodFab, a 3D Food Printer Startup
2016 - 2017Co-founder & Engineering Lead
Led development of a 3D food printing process for Alua (Thai dessert) and royal-icing dessert decoration based on Liquid Deposition Modelling – secured a national patent pending. Developed a 3D food printer and web-based slicer for dessert printing.
Gravitech Thai (Thailand) Co., Ltd.
2017Intern
Provided R&D embedded systems application & demo project and application for water flow metering, load-cell force sensing, and DC motor controlling.
Gravitech GroupCapabilities
Safety–critical Systems
- CBTC ATP/ATO · SIL-4/SIL-0
- EN 50128 · EN 50129 · MISRA C
- IBM Rational DOORS/RQM/Synergy
- Safety lifecycle · V&V
Programming Languages
- C · C++ · Python · Bash
- Rust · Go · TypeScript
Embedded Systems & Electronics
- FreeRTOS · Embedded Linux · FreeBSD · POSIX APIs · Qt5/6
- STM32 · ESP32 · Arm Cortex-M/R · TI C2000
- UART · SPI · I2C · CAN · MQTT · Modbus RTU · UDP · TCP/IP
- Hardware design & selection · driver & sensing circuits · KiCad
Industrial control & CAD/CAM/CAE
- PLC & field I/O · pneumatic/hydraulic control · motor control
- SolidWorks · AutoCAD · Abaqus · FDM 3D-printing parameters
Robotics & perception
- ROS1/ROS2 · MoveIt · OpenCV · PCL · GStreamer
- Gazebo · MuJoCo · Isaac Sim · CoppeliaSim (V-REP)
- TensorFlow · LibTorch C++ & PyTorch · TensorRT
Build & Development Tools
- Git · Makefile · CMake · Docker
- Bash & Excel VBA tooling
- Jenkins · GitHub Actions
Education
M.Eng. Mechanical Engineering
Robotics Program
Chiang Mai University
B.Eng. Mechanical Engineering
Pneumatic soft gripper & force control
King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi
Publications
Kultongkham A., Kumnon S., Thintawornkul T., Chanthasopeephan T.
Journal of Agricultural Engineering, 52(1) · 2021
Ninyawee N., Thintawornkul T., Pataranutaporn P., Ngamarunchot B., Itthipuripat S., Wilaiprasitporn T., Promnara K., Ngamkajornwiwat P., & Surareungchai W.
Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2019 · Springer
Resume
Tawan Thintawornkul
Safety-critical Software · Embedded Systems · Robotics & Automation
Updated Apr 2026
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