About

Why I Build Cortx

CORTX is my personal engineering portfolio: a collection of proprietary projects I build outside work to explore real-time visualization, real-time systems, and debugging workflows.

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.

Nexus is the application I wanted back then, local-first observability, multimodal ingest, repeatable replay, and remote control.

What I'm Building

Nexus

Multi-device plotting and serial, TCP/UDP, and CSV workflows for real-time inspection, debugging, and replay.

SpatialSense

Desktop visualization tooling for spatial and sensor data exploration with a performance-focused UI.

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