Frank Hessel
Researcher at Technische Universität Darmstadt
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolFrank Hessel is a researcher and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience bridging academic research and industrial software delivery from Darmstadt, Germany. He holds advanced degrees in computer science and internet/web systems from Technische Universität Darmstadt and a BSc from Dortmund, combining strong theoretical grounding with practical implementation skills. After early roles as an IT professional and Java EE engineer at SIGNAL IDUNA, he moved into research at TU Darmstadt in 2020, applying systems-level expertise to embedded and IoT problems. Frank is an active contributor to the well-known RIOT OS project, improving low-level drivers and hardware SPI support to boost memory efficiency and coding clarity—an indicator of his attention to resource-constrained systems. Colleagues describe him as a methodical engineer who translates hardware constraints into maintainable software solutions and who enjoys balancing research rigor with production-grade code.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Applied Sciences and Arts DortmundTechnischen Universität Darmstadt
Github Skills (13)
c1710
iot10
embedded10
rtos10
c1110
spi10
microcontroller10
sys10
c-programming9
sd-card9
driver9
internet-of-things8
operating-system8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RIOT-OS/RIOT
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
RIOT - The friendly OS for IoT
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 23 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily contributed to the RIOT operating system, focusing on low-level drivers and system-level utilities. Their work involved modifying existing drivers, particularly for SD cards and LCD displays, to improve code clarity, memory efficiency, and compliance with coding standards. They also made changes related to hardware SPI implementations.
riot-osinternetofthingsrtosriotmicrocontrollers
fhessel/RIOT
Mar 2019 - Jun 2020
RIOT - The friendly OS for IoT
Contributions:35 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year 3 months
iotriot
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