André Costa
Team Lead at LVGL
Fribourg - Freiburg, Fribourg, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAndré Costa is a pragmatic embedded software engineer and team lead based in Fribourg, Switzerland, with six years of hands-on experience delivering firmware, cloud services, and full-stack IoT solutions. He currently leads the LVGL open-source team and previously rebuilt an embedded Linux IoT platform as sole developer—modernizing UI, adding MQTT and BLE stacks, and orchestrating a Rust backend with Zephyr firmware. Comfortable across C/C++, Python, Rust, and web stacks, André combines low-level MCU work (Cortex-M0, ESP32) and PCB design with backend APIs, PostgreSQL, and CI/CD automation. His background spans academia and industry, contributing to research projects and shipping prototypes for multinational engineering teams. Known for turning proof-of-concept ideas into production-ready systems, he blends curiosity-driven engineering with practical delivery.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western SwitzerlandBachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Software Engineering at HEIG-VDCFC Electronics, CFC Electronics at CPLN
Github Skills (81)
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postgresql10
ui-editor10
yocto10
renesas10
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esp3210
embedded10
cpp10
avx10
linux10
fbdev10
touchscreen10
opengl10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AndreCostaaa/lvgl
Nov 2024 - Jul 2026
Embedded graphics library to create beautiful UIs for any MCU, MPU and display type.
Contributions:815 pushes, 262 branches, 46 tags in 1 year 8 months
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AndreCostaaa/so3
Nov 2024 - Jul 2025
Smart Object Oriented Operating system is a lightweight and full featured operating system devoted to embedded systems, currently mainly ARM-based. SO3 can be used in academic and industrial environment (https://smartobjectoriented.github.io/so3)
Contributions:2 PRs, 64 pushes, 16 branches in 7 months
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