Chris Iatrou
Teamleiter Embedded Software Automotive Communications
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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RockstarChris Iatrou is an experienced embedded software leader with 11 years in automotive communications, currently heading the Embedded Software team at Area 21 Software in Dresden. He blends hands-on C/C++ systems work with team leadership, focusing on robust, production-grade in-vehicle and communications software. An active open-source contributor to the well-regarded open62541 OPC UA project, he has extended server-side functionality including namespace loading, variable encoding, and subscription scaffolding—skills that translate to reliable protocol and middleware design. Colleagues know him for turning low-level memory and encoding challenges into maintainable, testable subsystems while scaling team delivery.
11 years of coding experience
German, Greek, English, French
Github Skills (8)
c1710
c1110
server10
opc-ua10
server-side10
data-structure9
data-structures9
memory-management9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
open62541/open62541
Apr 2015 - Aug 2019
Open source implementation of OPC UA (OPC Unified Architecture) aka IEC 62541 licensed under Mozilla Public License v2.0
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:263 commits, 8 PRs, 219 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the open62541 OPC UA implementation, focusing on core server-side functionalities. Their work included adding compile-time switches to enable loading generated namespace definitions and modifying the encoding of variable node data contents. The commits also introduced basic scaffolding for subscriptions, with features for adding, deleting and managing subscriptions along with the associated memory allocation and deallocation.
iectsnlicensediec-62541opcua
plt-tud/PLT_MRT_ARM-RPi2
Oct 2015 - Dec 2019
Lecture examples and exercise templates for the MRT ARM/Raspberry Pi lecture series.
Contributions:131 commits, 4 PRs, 100 pushes in 4 years 3 months
raspberry-pimrtraspberryarm
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