Christopher Hesse
Principal Systems Software Developer at BlackBerry QNX
Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region Germany
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Top SchoolChristopher Hesse is a Principal Systems Software Developer with 13 years of embedded and systems software experience, currently shaping QNX platform solutions in the Hannover–Braunschweig–Göttingen–Wolfsburg region. He specializes in memory safety, performance analysis, and low-level Android/SoC work across C and C++, with a strong track record in BSPs, drivers, hypervisors and Linux-to-QNX migrations. Christopher has led engineering teams at Aptiv on ADAS/environmental simulation and contributed notable open-source Android framework and vendor patches—improving sensor/input handling and adding device support for Paranoid Android and CyanogenMod. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he blends deep platform expertise with practical customer-facing professional services, and has a Masters in Computer Science from Stiftung Universität Hildesheim.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at Stiftung Universität Hildesheim
Github Skills (15)
network-configuration10
configurations10
c-language10
android-build10
cprogramming-language10
system-configuration10
makefile10
android-development10
android-framework10
user-input9
sensor9
surface-flinger8
surf8
abstraction-layer7
hal7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
TeamEOS/device_samsung_lt03wifi
Apr 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:61 commits, 2 pushes, 4 comments in 5 months
raymanfx/libv4l-rs
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Video4Linux2 bindings for Rust
Contributions:22 reviews, 165 commits, 41 PRs in 2 years 7 months
rustvideo
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