João Passos
Research Engineer at ADiT-LAB - Applied Digital Transformation Laboratory
Viana do Castelo, Portugal
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Top SchoolJoão Passos is a pragmatic embedded software engineer with 9 years' experience designing and shipping firmware for constrained microcontrollers and Embedded Linux systems, particularly in IoT and connected appliance domains. He has progressed from hands-on C/C++ development to leading firmware architecture and secure OTA/communication workflows using C and Go, with notable ESP32/FreeRTOS expertise from research prototyping to production. João combines academic R&D—where he led patent efforts and built multiprocessor ESP32 prototypes—with industry delivery at Fresco and ALTEN, bridging prototype innovation and production-grade reliability. Based in Viana do Castelo, Portugal, he pairs a Fullstack JavaScript mindset with deep low-level skills, making him adept at end-to-end embedded product development and system integration.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Postgraduate Degree Critical Computing Systems Engineering, Postgraduate Degree Critical Computing Systems Engineering at Instituto Politécnico do PortoBachelor's Degree Engenharia de Redes e Sistemas de Computadores, Bachelor's Degree Engenharia de Redes e Sistemas de Computadores at Instituto Politécnico de Viana do CasteloDoctor's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Doctor's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
TheVieiraAkA/TW_20_21
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:2 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
TheVieiraAkA/MMM-MyTraktSeries
Dec 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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