Awais worked at Itemis as a firmware developer in the IoT team with a focus on embedded Linux and microcontrollers. He has experience of developing firmware for microcontrollers and FPGAs. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering and a master's in Media Technology. He holds seven years of experience working on different embedded systems projects and smart-home IoT solutions. He won many international engineering project competitions in robotics and automation. He also worked on coding different audio and video codecs.