Christian Fobel
Senior Data Engineer
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Fobel is a Senior Data Engineer and entrepreneurial technologist with 15 years of experience building scalable data platforms and lab automation systems. As co-founder and CTO of Sci-Bots he co-developed the DropBot digital microfluidics platform and holds a related patent, blending embedded C++ firmware and Python-led control software with practical QC tooling. Today he architects provincial-scale batch and streaming pipelines at TELUS Health, standardizing FHIR primary care data for millions of patients using PySpark, Flink, Ibis and Apache Iceberg across AWS and GCP. He contributes upstream fixes to open-source projects (notably Ibis’ Flink backend) and has hands-on embedded/IoT experience demonstrated by display-driver and MicroPython contributions. Comfortable spanning research, product and production, he focuses on unlocking AI by making large, versioned datasets accessible and trustworthy. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, he combines deep academic training (PhD) with startup grit to deliver robust, auditable data systems.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of GuelphBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (7)
micropython10
lvgl10
font-manager9
windows-gui9
sys9
font-face9
embedded9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
lvgl/lv_binding_micropython
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
LVGL binding for MicroPython
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the project by modifying the configuration and driver files related to display functionality within the MicroPython environment. The commits focused on enhancing font options by adding the ability to optionally include Roboto fonts and defining the default font. The user also addressed a bug in the ili9341 driver, specifically related to the `invert` kwarg, ensuring proper initialization command handling. These changes aimed to improve the usability and compatibility of the LVGL binding with various display configurations.
guitftlvglmicropythonbinding
sci-bots/mpm
Mar 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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