Maya didn't confront him. Instead, she hot-air-reworked the whisker, re-flashed the BK3433 with a custom firmware that rerouted the radio to a secondary antenna path (a forgotten v1 feature), and tested the board.
Leo was escorted out. The board went into production as "." bk m33 bt v2 pcb
It worked perfectly— better , even: RSSI improved by 2dB. Maya didn't confront him
At the investor demo, Maya live-streamed sensor data through a single M33-BT-V2 board, then presented logs of Leo’s CAD edits and the exact timestamp of the sabotage. The board went into production as "
A senior firmware engineer, , had joined six weeks ago from a rival firm. He had personally reviewed the v2 layout and added that test point "for calibration."
She traced it to a tiny, intentional copper whisker hidden under the solder mask. Not a fab error— sabotage .