About

Why I’m Building Cortx

Cortx started as the tooling gap I could not ignore: after five years working on aerospace FADEC software and industrial controllers, I went from rich SCADE/NPSS visualizations to staring at UART logs in the dark.

The Wall I Kept Hitting

On the LEAP engine FADEC program, SCADE and NPSS let me see everything: control laws, trim logic, thermodynamic models, all synchronized and explorable. When I shifted to microcontroller and RTOS firmware for industrial systems, that visibility vanished. Suddenly I was juggling UART logs, oscilloscopes, and logic analyzers just to reconstruct what the code did.

Timing bugs disappeared as soon as I added printf statements. Hardware debuggers halted the system. Field issues meant shipping hardware back to the lab. I missed the real-time visualization and replay that made FADEC debugging intuitive and fast.

Cortx is the toolchain I wanted back then, local-first observability, multimodal ingest, deterministic replay, and remote control.μscope ships today. The rest of the EdgeOps roadmap is underway.

What I'm Building

μscope Shipping

Stage 0 of EdgeOps. Professional serial visualization with multi-device support, real-time plotting, and operator-grade workflows. Available now for Windows, Linux, and Raspberry Pi.

Network Connectivity & Remote Updates 2026–2027

Connect devices over WiFi, Bluetooth, MQTT, and CAN, push signed OTA updates with rollbacks, add LiDAR and camera visualization, and record synchronized sessions for replay.

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Cloud Control & Automation 2028–2029

Cloud dashboards, remote diagnostics, rollout policies, and on-device automation, so engineers can supervise fleets remotely while keeping local fail-safes and secure updates.

Background

• Aerospace propulsion control, FADEC software and visualization for LEAP engines
• Embedded firmware for industrial actuators & Zephyr RTOS architectures
Electronics & Control of Aircraft Systems Engineering

Contact

Email: arturo.dlrios@cortxtech.com

LinkedIn: arturoriost

Location: Montreal, QC