Jaume Olivé
Whitecat IDE Project Leader
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolJaume Olivé is an experienced embedded systems engineer and project leader with over 25 years in software development and more than a decade focused on IoT and real-time firmware for platforms like ESP32, ESP8266 and PIC32. As freelance lead of the Whitecat IDE and Lua RTOS projects, he combines hands-on C and Lua development with product-focused tooling that enables both block-based teaching and production-grade embedded applications. His contributions include hardware-access modules, sensor support, and performance improvements to SPI/I2C/RMT drivers, and he has delivered certified DALI lighting and low-power LoRaWAN solutions for commercial clients. Comfortable across firmware, BSPs, FreeRTOS-based kernels and MCU migrations, he also brings managerial perspective from an MBA and prior company leadership. Based in Barcelona, he’s known for turning constrained embedded requirements into reliable, maintainable systems and for keeping developer productivity front and center.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at EAE Business SchoolUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Catalan, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
freertos10
c-programming10
spi10
i2c10
iot10
sys10
system-integration10
sensor-fusion10
embedded10
serial-communication10
iot-devkit10
data-structure9
filesystem9
data-structures9
xml6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
whitecatboard/Lua-RTOS-ESP32
Oct 2016 - Apr 2021
Lua RTOS for ESP32
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1212 commits, 109 PRs, 1134 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Jaume primarily contributed to the development of the Lua RTOS for the ESP32, focusing on the hardware-access modules and sensor support. Their work included adding support for the new DHT22, US-015 and other sensors, improving the SPI and I2C drivers for increased speed and reliability, and integrating a new RMT driver. The user also focused on enhancements and bug fixes within the existing file system drivers and in the Lua VM.
luarcespressifrtosiot-platform
whitecatboard/LuaOS-PIC32MZ
Jan 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 release, 135 pushes, 1 tag in 9 months
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