Candeo: to shine.
From the Latin candeo — to glow, to be bright. We started Candeo Labs with a simple belief: the best technology decisions come from shining a light on what really matters, then moving forward with confidence.
We are a boutique consultancy of senior technologists, product leaders and strategists. We work with a handful of clients at a time, so each one gets our full attention.
Clarity over complexity
If we can’t explain it on one page, we haven’t understood it yet.
Senior, hands-on
The people you meet are the people who do the work.
Outcomes, not hours
We agree what success looks like up front and measure against it.
Jacek Peszek
Hardware whisperer · Software translator
Jacek has spent three decades on the thin line where software meets copper — the place where code stops being abstract and starts blinking LEDs, spinning motors and, occasionally, letting out the magic smoke.
He started out designing hardware for marine chart plotters and GPS trackers and writing firmware for powertrain controllers, then spent 22 years at Intel — from 3G and WiMAX basebands to BIOS/UEFI, chipset drivers and NPU bring-up. In short: if it has registers, he has probably poked them.
Along the way he went from writing the drivers to leading the teams that write them — hiring, mentoring and keeping hardware, firmware and software people speaking the same language. Managing engineers, it turns out, is also an interfacing problem; the protocols are just less well documented.
He is happiest when a device has to deal with the messy outside world — sensors, radios, actuators, humans — and still behave exactly as the datasheet promised. (It rarely does. That’s where he comes in.) Off the clock he keeps converting physical motion into signals, usually with six strings and an amplifier.