Alvaro Pinzón
Android Engineer at CanAirIO
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvaro Pinzón is an Android engineer with 15 years of experience building mobile applications tightly integrated with hardware and embedded systems, currently based in Berlin. He co-founded citizen-science projects like CanAirIO and contributed to EU research initiatives, blending product-minded Android development with hands-on electronics and firmware work. At GSMK CryptoPhone he works across the Android stack, and his background includes integrating C++ CV layers, reverse engineering, and device-specific power/display management. An active open-culture and software freedom advocate, he also maintains IoT-focused open-source contributions such as hardware support for ESP32 Paxcounter variants. His dual degrees in electrical engineering and systems engineering underpin a practical fluency across hardware, low-level software, and mobile UX. Colleagues describe him as an engineer who bridges prototype hardware to production-quality Android apps while keeping community-driven, privacy-respecting principles front and center.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Nacional de ColombiaBachelor's degree, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Bachelor's degree, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Colegio Corazonista Bogotá
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
2,722reputation
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53answers
2questions
android
top-5%
Github Skills (14)
esp3210
iot10
embedded10
sys10
arduino10
android9
platformio9
properties-file6
crashlytics6
progressdialog6
android-studio6
sharedpreferences6
barcode-scanner6
java6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
cyberman54/ESP32-Paxcounter
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Wifi & BLE driven passenger flow metering with cheap ESP32 boards
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alvaro primarily contributed to supporting different hardware boards, specifically the TTGO T-Display and TTGO T-Wristband, for the passenger flow metering project. Their work involved creating and modifying header files to configure display settings, button inputs, and power management for these specific ESP32-based boards. The contributions also included fixing initialization issues, recalibrating battery dividers, and incorporating display dimensions, indicating a focus on hardware integration and device-specific software configuration.
meteringrccheapgps-trackerbluetooth-low-energy
hpsaturn/digispark
Sep 2018 - Sep 2022
Testing USB driver (DigiSpark)
Contributions:4 PRs, 35 pushes, 21 branches in 4 years
digisparktestingusb
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