Description

Staff Embedded Software Engineer — C/C++ Expert | Team Lead | Firmware & BSP Specialist

With over 14 years of experience in embedded software engineering, I have built deep expertise across the full stack of low-level development, from bare-metal firmware and bootloader bring-up to real-time operating systems and ASIC validation. I have held senior and staff-level positions at Nokia and Arm, working on telecommunications infrastructure, ML accelerators, and next-generation silicon.

I combine strong hands-on technical delivery with proven team leadership, having served as both Scrum Master and technical lead on multiple projects in multicultural, international environments.

Core technical expertise

Firmware architecture & BSP — bootloader development (U-Boot), device driver development, board and chip bring-up, platform design and implementation
Real-time systems — FreeRTOS, interrupt context routines, inter-CPU communication (RPMSG, VirtIO)
Performance optimisation — bare-metal application optimisation using SIMD instructions, low-power design
Simulation environments — development and maintenance of hardware models in Simics and QEMU, significantly reducing software bring-up time on physical targets
Tooling & testing — CI pipelines, unit testing, Robot framework, Linux kernel driver development, Python and Bash scripting

Modern C++ advocate

I am deeply invested in the C++ community. At Nokia, I founded and led the company's first internal C++ guild, fostering knowledge-sharing across engineering teams.

What I offer as a freelancer

I take full ownership of embedded projects, from architecture definition and requirements analysis through implementation, testing, and delivery. I am equally effective working autonomously or integrating within an existing engineering team. My experience spans telecommunications, IoT, and industrial environments, and I am comfortable engaging directly with hardware engineers, product owners, and technical leadership

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Dutch
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Nokia
Embedded software Engineer
August 2022 - Today (3 years and 10 months)
Antwerpen, Belgium
DBA software team: Team lead and scrum leader
• ● Participating in software architecture and features development in a multicultural team ○ OS: FreeRTOS ○ Writing interrupt context routines ○ Writing new application code ○ Managing communication with another CPU via RPMSG and VirtIO.
• ● Optimizing bare metal application using SIMD instructions.
• ● Writing GUI tools in python to help process the outputs and debug the system
• ● Managing backlog and priorities
• ● Guiding the team to use the greatest and latest feature of C++17
• ● Upgrading compiler toolchain
• ● Validating newly designed in house ASIC on the Veloce FPGA emulator
• ● Help analyzing signal traces
• ● Working in collaboration with ASIC team to steer the design to be software friendly
• ● Developing and maintaining the HW models for our simulator (Simics) to run test our target build reducing significantly the software bring-up on the actual target
• ● Volunteering to promote STEM to young students during our company events (e.g. day of PI) C++ guild master
• ● Setup of the first ever guild at Nokia
• ● Organizing and moderating the C++ guild sessions
ArmLtd
Embedded Software Engineer in C/C++
March 2020 - July 2022 (2 years and 4 months)
Cambridge, UK
ML NPU software
• ● Participating to design notes and feature developments on C++14 and C++ 17 in an Agile environment
• ● Low-level firmware development
• ● Linux kernel driver development
• ● Developing and maintaining tools in Python and Bash GPU modeling team
• ● Implementing HW features in C++ 11
C++ guild master
• ● Organizing and moderating the C++ guild sessions
Nokia
Embedded Software Engineer
January 2011 - March 2020 (9 years and 2 months)
Antwerpen, Belgium
As scrum leader/team lead
• ● Determining, planning and prioritizing the stories with the rest of the team
• ● Communicating the status of the current stories and agreeing the next stories to be taken with the stakeholder As a senior embedded software engineer
• ● Supporting the hardware department and driving the decisions to tailor the design and development of the next generation ASICs so that the chip is optimized to run the targeted software
• ● Proceeding to board and chip bring-up by means of bootloader development (U-BOOT) and device driver development.
• ● Participating in the full life-cycle development of new features, including architecture and requirements definitions, in Agile environment using C/C++
• ● Testing with CI server, UT and Robot framework
• ● Extending functionalities in existing code and bug fixing
• ● Being responsible for the simulation environment (Simics/QEMU). Developing models which requires good understanding of the hardware
• ● Developing and maintaining scripts in Python and bash
• ● Platform design and implementation