About
Paladin Engineering was founded as a hybrid cloud-based engineering and product development consulting firm that eliminated all the unnecessary overhead expenses associated with traditional consulting firms while providing the highest quality engineering services.
One of the largest financial burdens that traditional engineering firms carry is the rent and maintenance of office space and large machine shops for prototyping. However, intelligent and innovative use of cloud-based technology, combined with a revolution in desktop prototyping, makes the need for large physical offices obsolete.
By trimming all the excess expenses and passing those savings on to our clients, our engineers can instead devote their full efforts to solving their clients' problems and working together as a cohesive team without the necessity of being collocated in a physical office. Our cloud computing capabilities create great opportunity to effectively communicate across geographies for both engineers and clients, allowing us to bring the most-qualified engineers for your project to your project team. We are a group of multi-disciplinary experts, with passion for engineering and innovation, united to achieve a common goal… making the impossible possible.
Our Team
Alwyn Smith, P.E.
Chief Engineer
Alwyn is responsible for delivering the product development services that turn ideas into solutions. Whether its product development, an exploratory project, or creating a custom solution for a client problem, Alwyn leads the charge to explore and exploit the latest technological advances.
Alwyn has a tremendous breadth of engineering experience as an electro-mechanical engineer for almost 20 years, having applied his engineering skills in military, civil, and industrial robotics sectors. A former U.S. Army officer, Alwyn is passionate about creating talented and capable teams, innovation, and robotics.
Alwyn holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the United States Military Academy, at West Point, as well as Masters degrees in both Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University. Alwyn is an Army combat veteran with service in Iraq and the Balkans.
Nate Evans, MS, MBA
Chief of Operations
Nate Evans turns your ideas into marketable solutions. He guides the development of product strategy, marketing, and fulfillment operations.
Nate is an experienced business professional, bringing almost 20 years of diverse experience to the table, having worked for hardware and software solution companies serving the agriculture and health-care sectors. His passion for new technology and extensive experience bringing new solutions to market gives him a unique insight into the challenges and opportunities technology companies face every day.
Nate holds a B.S. in Economics and a Master of Pharmacy from the University of Florida. Nate also holds a Master of Business Administration from North Carolina State University. Nate is an Army combat veteran with service in Afghanistan.
Todd Zielinski
Lead Embedded Systems Engineer
Todd brings more than 25 years of embedded systems experience to the table taking designs from concept to delivery. You name it, he’s probably worked on it or something like it. Whether it’s aerospace, military, industrial, commercial products, video – switches / cameras / encoders, connected consumer products, or wearables, Todd has experience with it. He’s developed products using a huge range of technologies – ASIC, FPGA, embedded systems, analog signal conditioning, power systems, real time firmware, and application software. He’s successfully taken dozens of projects from inception, design, development, testing, supply chain management, contract manufacturing and delivery.
Todd received his MS and BS in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Drexel University. When he’s not bending electrons to his will, he teaches whitewater kayaking and is part of the Savoy Opera Company of Philadelphia.
Matt Keller
Lead Software Engineer
Matt brings over 20 years of experience in all phases of the software development life cycle.
He’s a hands-on technical leader who actively engages in development work. Matt has tremendous breadth and depth of experience, which includes developing financial transaction systems, VPN, mobile application development, CAD design tools, and performance optimizations using C, C++, C#, .Net, JavaScript, and Java.
Matt received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Penn State University. When he’s not shepherding software development, he’s been known to enjoy flinging pumpkins as part of Punkin Chunkin’ World Champion Team Onager.
