The people behind Octanis
A prototyping lab in Zurich, a network of specialists we've worked with for years, and the stubbornness to ship hardware that actually works. Here's who you'd be working with.
Founders
Sam Sulaimanov
Partner · BSc EPFL, MSc ETH Zürich
Sam has been coding for almost two decades. He completed his IT apprenticeship at PwC, created apps and managed a software team at ETH Zürich, and earned a Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering from EPFL followed by a Master's in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology from ETH Zürich. At Octanis, he spends most of his time orchestrating projects and listening to customers.
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Raffael Tschui
Partner · MSc EPFL, Stanford
Raffael completed a Master's in Micro- and Nanoelectronics at EPFL with a thesis on ultrasonic transducers at Stanford, where he also attended the d.school. Before co-founding Octanis, he designed analog on-chip components for RFID products at EM Microelectronics (Swatch Group). He was an engineering coach for EPFL's China Hardware Innovation Camp, visiting Shenzhen many times. Raffael designs, assembles, and tests PCBs or writes firmware for customer hardware.
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Where it gets built
Our network
Agile and scalable team
We bring in specialist partners for mechanical design, injection molding, CNC, and sourcing. Long-term collaborators in Europe and China. People we've met in person, visited their factories, and shipped with before.
Location
Europastrasse 30, 8152 Glattbrugg (Zürich)
