Christie Nel
Embedded Systems Engineer, Founder at Chipbotics
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChristie Nel is an embedded systems engineer and founder based in Cambridge with 10 years of hands-on experience designing control systems, instrumentation and automation hardware and firmware. She founded Chipbotics to prototype a wide range of products—from environmental controllers with custom dsPIC current-feedback and bootloader designs to multi-channel motor controllers, RFID/Bluetooth scanners and IoT CANopen devices—demonstrating a knack for end-to-end product development across electronics, firmware and mechanical integration. Her background includes extensive LabVIEW and LabVIEW FPGA work for high-performance industrial and scientific systems, plus experience porting embedded products, implementing capacitive touch and Bluetooth audio, and building Raspberry Pi web interfaces. She has worked in regulated and research environments (medical robotics, EMBL) where she combined precision control, real-time imaging and automated test frameworks. Known for pragmatic engineering, Christie frequently builds bespoke test and release automation and encrypted firmware update flows that reduce production and maintenance risk.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Eng.Sci Computer Science Electronic Engineering, B.Eng.Sci Computer Science Electronic Engineering at Stellenbosch University
English, AfrikaansProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wenzel-lab/modular-microfluidics-workstation-controller
Oct 2019 - Nov 2020
Repository for the development of the modular parts of a free and open source microfluidic workstation.
Contributions:188 commits, 84 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Cyberius/Whiskeroscope
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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