Eric Ptak
Freelance Consultant & Engineer at birdilab
Lille, Hauts-de-France
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Top SchoolEric Ptak is a freelance consultant and engineer based in Lille with over 15 years of R&D experience and nine years in professional roles shaping IoT and distributed systems. He founded WebIOPi, an early, widely adopted Raspberry Pi IoT framework, and later led R&D for Cayenne/IoTinaBox where he drove protocol-level expertise (LoRaWAN, CoAP, MQTT) into production-grade, plug-and-play IoT platforms. He specializes in software and system architecture across cloud, embedded and distributed environments, pairing hands‑on Node.js/Python development with technical advisory, mentoring, and cross-team coordination. Known for turning complex ideas into working systems, he moves projects from prototyping to scalable deployments while aligning technical choices with business needs. An uncommon strength is his blend of telecom/protocol depth and product-facing experience, enabling pragmatic solutions for large-scale IoT rollouts.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering at IMT Nord Europe
French, English
Github Skills (26)
api5
altium-designer5
minecraft4
nodejs4
freecad4
esp82664
bluepill4
nodemcu4
modification4
arduino4
open-hardware3
python3
javascript3
lorawan3
kicad3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
myDevicesIoT/hapi-cayenne-mqtt
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 day
mqtthapijscayennehapijs-plugin
eptak/slotmachine
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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