Amr Bekhit
Company Owner at HelmPCB
Istanbul, Türkiye Turkey
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Top SchoolAmr Bekhit is the founder of HelmPCB, a design consultancy in Istanbul specialising in ATEX/IECEx Ex i intrinsic safety for fuel and industrial applications, with around a decade of hands-on experience and nearly 15 years in the industry. He combines deep embedded-systems expertise—evidenced by open-source contributions to mynewt-core, LoRa drivers, BME680 sensor integration, and low-power radio enhancements—with practical certification guidance that helps clients make designs ATEX-compliant. His background includes a PhD in robotic mobility and a first-class honours in Mechatronics from the University of Leeds, reflecting strong multidisciplinary engineering and problem-solving skills. Amr is as comfortable debugging hardware timers and SPI drivers as he is preparing technical documentation for safety certification, bridging the gap between low-level firmware and regulatory requirements. Clients benefit from his rare mix of academic rigor, field-proven embedded design, and direct experience navigating IECEx/ATEX processes.
10 years of coding experience
PhD, Robotic Mobility in Live Water Pipes, PhD, Robotic Mobility in Live Water Pipes at University of Leeds
Arabic, English, Turkish
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Github contributions (5)
apache/mynewt-core
Jun 2018 - May 2019
An OS to build, deploy and securely manage billions of devices
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 19 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Amr primarily contributed to the `mynewt-core` repository by fixing SPI read operations within the `sx1272` LoRa driver. They also added support for the Bosch BME680 environmental sensor, integrating it into the sensor driver framework. Further contributions include implementing low-power support within the LoRa stack and modifying the nRF timer code for HFXO manager integration, demonstrating a focus on power efficiency and hardware interaction.
mynewtsecurely
amrbekhit/microchipboot
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
Host Library for the Microchip Unified Bootloader
Contributions:4 releases, 7 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 8 months
bootloadermicrochiphost
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