Akos Pasztor
Team Lead Firmware Engineering at SkyCell AG
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAkos Pasztor is a Team Lead Firmware Engineering based in Zurich with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and shipping embedded hardware and firmware across industrial, medical, automotive, and IoT products. He blends deep low-level C/C++ and RTOS expertise with analog/digital circuit design and PCB layout, having contributed to high-volume sensor modules and safety-conscious, MISRA-compliant firmware. At companies from Sensirion and Landis+Gyr to ETH Zurich, he shaped core architectures, improved CI/CD and test automation, and even modified Linux kernel drivers to boost SoC peripheral performance. An active open-source practitioner, he developed a customizable STM32 bootloader supporting SD/FAT32 firmware updates and SWO trace, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and field-upgradeability. Colleagues describe him as a technical leader who pairs rigorous engineering discipline with a knack for building tooling and infrastructure that accelerates teams.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsMaster’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at ETH Zürich
English, German, German, Hungarian
Github Skills (11)
firmware10
bootloader10
embedded10
flash-memory10
stm10
sd-card10
sys10
c-programming9
assembler7
arm7
assembly7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
akospasztor/stm32-bootloader
Apr 2017 - Nov 2022
Customizable Bootloader for STM32 microcontrollers. This example demonstrates how to perform in-application-programming of a firmware located on an external SD card with FAT32 file system.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 190 commits, 50 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Akos was primarily involved in developing a customizable bootloader for STM32 microcontrollers. Their contributions focused on implementing core bootloader features, including flash memory operations (erasing, programming, verifying), and adding SD card support for firmware updates via a FAT32 file system. The user also added configuration options such as write protection and the setting of the vector table. Furthermore, they enhanced the bootloader with features for jumping to the system memory and support for SWO trace.
flashermicrosdbootloaderfile-systemesp32
akospasztor/docker-python
Jun 2021 - Nov 2024
This repository contains docker container images with python installation. Each image has a specific python version pre-installed with pyenv.
Contributions:40 PRs, 43 pushes, 41 branches in 3 years 5 months
pythondocker-imageinstallationdockercontainer-images
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