David Orozco Cosio

David Orozco Cosio is the co-founder of oroForge and an MIT-trained engineer who spent over a decade building IoT hardware before starting the company. His work has spanned distributed sensors, autonomous systems, medical devices, and toys.

IoT sits at the intersection of hardware and software, and so has his career. He built firmware and applications alongside the physical product, worked through the same BOMs and change orders every hardware team deals with, and watched what broke as those products scaled.

The pattern repeated across every domain: spreadsheets for the BOM, shared drives for CAD, a ticketing tool for change requests, and a shared understanding that eventually stopped matching what the contract manufacturer was building. oroForge is his answer to that problem: structured BOM management, file version control, and ECO change control sized for teams of two to fifty engineers.

On the oroForge blog he writes practical guides on BOM management, engineering change orders, part numbering, and the CM handoff, plus opinion pieces on why enterprise PLM fails hardware startups and where AI tools fit into hardware engineering.