Federico Pfaffendorf
Lead Firmware Engineer at Federico Pfaffendorf
Buenos Aires, Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Top SchoolFederico Pfaffendorf is a Lead Firmware Engineer based in Buenos Aires with two decades of systems experience and nine years focused on embedded and firmware leadership. He architects and develops low-level firmware in C/C++/Assembly across Bluetooth LE/Mesh and a wide range of MCUs and SoCs, while also coding higher-level tools in Python. As founder of multiple startups and the largest Arduino community in Latin America, he blends entrepreneurial product delivery with community building and hands-on maker culture. At Avi-on he leads distributed teams, customer engagement, and embedded platform roadmaps, and is an active Bluetooth SIG member. His background spans web, desktop, and embedded stacks—bringing practical cross-domain fluency that helps bridge prototyping on Arduino/Raspberry Pi to production-qualified Bluetooth products. He’s also a licensed VFR private pilot, reflecting a curiosity for systems and disciplined operational thinking beyond software.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
VFR Private Pilot, Aeronautics, VFR Private Pilot, Aeronautics at GoFly ArgentinaIngeniería en Sistemas, Ingeniería en Sistemas at Universidad de Buenos Aires
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (24)
circuit7
layout7
layout-engine6
schematic6
sgp46
drawing6
bacpypes5
bacnet5
propagation5
linux4
bac04
python4
azerothcore3
automation3
build-automation3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fpfaffendorf/helloworld-python
Feb 2017 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 6 years 2 months
pythonopenwrt
fpfaffendorf/tft-arduino
Apr 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 6 commits, 5 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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