Axel Le Bourhis
Senior Software Engineer - Connectivity at NXP Semiconductors
Greater Nice Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolAxel Le Bourhis is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with over seven years specializing in low-power connectivity for ARM Cortex-M platforms, currently driving connectivity strategy at NXP Semiconductors. He architects and optimizes BLE, OpenThread, Zigbee, and Matter stacks for portability and scalability, and frequently prepares firmware for pre-silicon and SoC bring-up alongside FPGA teams. A prolific contributor to Zephyr RTOS and Matter enablement, Axel has implemented HCI drivers, BLE low-power features, and Wi‑Fi/MbedTLS integrations that improve NXP platform support in prominent open-source projects. He combines rigorous engineering practices—A‑SPICE, MISRA C, CMake/Kconfig—with hands-on skills in C/C++, assembly, and RTOS internals, and mentors teams as a primary code reviewer. Notably, his work includes subtle reliability fixes such as buffer handling and calibration workflows that have prevented hard-to-reproduce field issues.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering degree Electronics systems engineering, Engineering degree Electronics systems engineering at Polytech Nice SophiaIn-school preparatory degree Engineering, In-school preparatory degree Engineering at Polytech Nantes
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (18)
c-language10
embedded-language10
bluetooth-le10
c1110
microcontroller10
zephyr10
c1710
rtos10
sys10
bluetooth10
matter-js10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
wifi10
internet-of-things9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 8 PRs, 53 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Axel primarily contributes to the Zephyr RTOS, focusing on Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) drivers and related functionalities. Their work involves developing and integrating HCI drivers for NXP platforms, enabling features like auto-sleep and calibration data configuration. The user also addresses build system configurations and corrects issues related to the Zephyr's networking stack by clearing buffer before receiving messages. The user's contributions extend to documentation updates and fixing memory handling issues.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
project-chip/connectedhomeip
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:41 reviews, 14 PRs, 39 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Axel primarily contributes to the enablement and development of Matter over WiFi on the NXP Zephyr platform. They focus on integrating Zephyr with Matter, including initial WiFi enablement, BLE commissioning, storage, OTA, and MbedTLS PSA API integration. The contributions involve updates to Kconfig files, and updates to NXP Zephyr platform enablement, as well as fixes and improvements related to WiFi functionality and diagnostic features.
connectivity-standards-alliancebuild-with-matterguidedzephyrconnectivity
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