Christopher Métrailler
R&D Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor ASA
Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarChristopher Métrailler is an R&D engineer based in Switzerland with 12 years’ experience specializing in low-power wireless communications, including Bluetooth Low Energy, LTE Cat-M1 and NB-IoT around Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF91 SiP. He combines hands-on firmware and SDK work with build and release automation—most notably improving a popular pc-ble-driver bootstrap script to robustly download, patch and configure the nRF5 SDK for varied environments. His background spans IoT protocol stacks (6LoWPAN, IPv6) and earlier Android development, giving him a pragmatic full-stack view of embedded connectivity products. Known for turning brittle setup steps into user-friendly, argument-driven tooling, he helps teams streamline reproducible builds and accelerate product integration.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (10)
bash10
script10
sdk10
build-automation10
git9
automations8
automation8
error-handling8
version-control8
scripting8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
NordicSemiconductor/pc-ble-driver
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Desktop library for Bluetooth low energy development
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a bootstrap script within the repository. This script automates the download, patching, and setup of the nRF5 SDK, crucial for building the connectivity application. The contributions evolved from a basic script to a more robust version, including error handling, user interaction, and the ability to accept arguments, making it more generic and versatile for various SDK versions and configurations. The overall impact is to streamline the build process and provide a more user-friendly setup experience.
driversdriverbluetoothblebluetooth-low-energy
Electrical-Age/electrical-age.github.io
Dec 2015 - Nov 2020
Official Electrical-Age website
Contributions:47 commits, 13 PRs, 58 pushes in 4 years 11 months
jekyllageelectrical
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