Felix Gateru
Software Engineer at Ultraviolet
Nairobi County, Kenya
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Top SchoolFelix Gateru is a software and embedded systems engineer with six years of hands-on experience building firmware, electronics, and product designs for aerospace and manufacturing applications. Currently at Ultraviolet, he brings a mechatronics-first perspective informed by prior roles as a propulsion systems and electrical engineer on the Nakuja Project and product design work at Octavia Carbon. Proficient in C/C++, Embedded C, Python and Go, he designs PCBs, writes Mbed OS firmware, and integrates control theory into real-world electromechanical systems. Felix’s experience spans the full development lifecycle from rapid prototyping and additive/subtractive fabrication to test and integration firmware. He pairs a formal mechatronics education with practical startup and lab experience in Nairobi, driven by a specific interest in applying control systems to rockets and complex mechanisms. Colleagues describe him as eager to learn, adaptable, and focused on turning theoretical control concepts into reliable hardware implementations.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 1, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, 1 at Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and TechnologyMang'u high school
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Github Skills (42)
bacnet10
iot-application10
opc10
infiniband10
device-management10
5g10
messaging10
coap10
sdn10
lorawan10
mqtt10
authentication10
distributed-systems10
software-update10
scada10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
1998-felix/Starshipsgame
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:20 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
FYP-18-22/Liquid-engine-cooling-system
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:88 commits, 60 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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