Abilio Marques
Software Developer at Philips Lighting
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbilio Marques is an experienced software developer and electronics engineer with a decade of cross-disciplinary experience building embedded Linux products, IoT devices, and cloud-integrated services. He has shipped firmware and hardware across ARM, PIC, HC08 and ESP32 platforms and led system-wide efforts at Philips Hue—rearchitecting provisioning, firmware updates and filesystem migration for millions of devices. Skilled in C/C++, Python, Node.js and low-level debugging (even assembly), he also contributed stability fixes to the widely used Eclipse Mosquitto MQTT broker. Abilio blends hands-on engineering with product-level decisions—introducing Python/Rust in embedded stacks, LPWAN connectivity (LoRa/Sigfox) and SQLite-backed local storage—while having led teams and cross-functional projects. His background in both hardware cost optimization and cloud-backed IoT systems gives him a rare end-to-end perspective on product reliability and performance.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Electronics, 4.5/5, Engineer's degree, Electronics, 4.5/5 at Universidad Simón BolívarMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), 4.45 / 5, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), 4.45 / 5 at IESA
English, Spanish, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
c1710
mqtt10
error-handling10
brokers10
broker10
c1110
back-end-development10
networking10
mqttnet10
debugging9
embedded8
sys8
nodejs6
javascript6
handlebars6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-mosquitto/mosquitto
Nov 2018 - Apr 2025
Eclipse Mosquitto - An open source MQTT broker
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 PRs, 36 comments, 12 issues in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Abilio primarily focused on improving the stability and robustness of the MQTT broker, Mosquitto. Their commits addressed several critical issues related to bridge functionality, including fixing bugs related to restart timeouts, backoff mechanisms, and handling remote broker errors. They also made changes to the core components, such as message handling and SSL initialization, to optimize performance and address potential memory leaks. Additionally, the user contributed to enhancing the client-side tools by addressing subscription grant issues.
eclipsemosquittomqttbrokereclipse-iot
abiliojr/sqlite-js
Nov 2015 - Oct 2018
JavaScript for SQLite
Contributions:5 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
javascriptsqlitesqlite3plugin
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