Bavo Van Achte
Senior Firmware Engineer at Cochlear
Mechelen, Antwerp, Belgium
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Top SchoolBavo Van Achte is a senior firmware engineer with 11 years of embedded software experience across automotive and semiconductor domains, currently contributing to Cochlear from Mechelen, Belgium. He has deep hands-on expertise in C/assembly on constrained custom CPUs, CI-driven development, and test automation backed by extensive documentation and requirement traceability. At Melexis he progressed into senior roles emphasizing software architecture and functional safety (ISO 26262), leading FMEA/FTA efforts and safety analyses. His background spans sensor and communication systems, build-system modernization, and tooling work such as Jenkins-based CI and cross-compiler porting for prototyping. Comfortable bridging low-level implementation and system-level safety, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a methodical approach to requirements and verification. A former student leader with international project experience, he brings collaborative leadership and an eye for operationalizing robust embedded products.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Manipal Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Industrial Sciences: Electronics-ICT, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Industrial Sciences: Electronics-ICT at Groep T - Internationale Hogeschool LeuvenHigh School Diploma, Sciences, High School Diploma, Sciences at O.-L.-V.-P. Bornem
English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (109)
less-plugin10
npyscreen10
sphinx-extension10
text-based9
traceability9
warnings9
argparse9
elf9
unit-testing9
plantuml9
logic8
directive8
python8
waveform8
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
melexis/SENTAnalyzer
Aug 2017 - Aug 2020
SENT (SAE J2716) Analyzer for Saleae USB logic analyzer
Contributions:1 release, 74 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years
usbanalyzerlogicsaesaleae
bavovanachte/sphinx-wavedrom
Jul 2016 - Mar 2022
Contributions:7 releases, 2 reviews, 120 commits in 5 years 9 months
representationdiagramspythonsphinx-extensionwavedrom
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