Felix Winterstein

About

I am a co-founder and CEO at Xelera Technologies, a provider of high-performance datacenter and machine learning technology. Xelera Technologies offers SmartNIC, DPU and AI inferencing technology. The product plays a critical role in optimizing the performance and cost efficiency in datacenters. The company serves a global customer base in the US, Europe and APAC region. I am proud to have an outstanding team. By background, I am an engineer. Before I founded Xelera, I worked at the European Space Agency. I have a PhD from Imperial College London.

Experience

• CEO at Xelera Technologies
  Aug 2017 - Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

  Accelerating applications in the data center, cloud and edge. https://xelera.io/

• Imperial College London (3 yrs)
  • Honorary Research Fellow
    Aug 2017 - Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Research Associate
    May 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos

    Principal investigator, electronic design automation and processor memory optimizations (jointly with Intel)

  • Research Assistant
    Sep 2015 - Apr 2016 · 8 mos

    Research in electronic design automation and processor memory optimizations (jointly with MIT/Intel), fault tolerant computing, energy-efficient computing

• European Space Agency (European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), Darmstadt, Germany)
  • Systems and Hardware Engineer
    Jun 2012 - Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos

    Space surveillance radars for space debris detection and tracking PhD Research jointly with Imperial College London

  • Junior Hardware Engineer
    Jun 2010 - May 2012 · 2 yrs

    Phased array radar prototype Supporting the industry-led development of a space surveillance radar

• Post-graduate assistant at Institute for Communication Technologies and Embedded Systems, RWTH Aachen
  Jan 2010 - May 2010 · 5 mos

  ASIC design for LTE multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) signal processing

• Internship at Infineon Technologies Asia Pacific, Singapore
  Jun 2008 - Dec 2008 · 7 mos

  Microcontroller firmware and programming tools