Jonas Van Pelt
Technical Lead at NXP Semiconductors
Brussels, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolJonas Van Pelt is a technical lead with 11 years of embedded software experience, currently driving firmware development for an ultra-low-power single-chip Bluetooth Low Energy 5.2 transceiver at NXP Semiconductors, focused on healthcare IoT. He began in firmware and systems work—ranging from NFMI ultralow-power audio streaming to microcontroller-based remote generator monitoring—and combines hands-on C firmware, radio protocol expertise, and PCB-level debugging. Jonas has contributed to open-source networking stacks such as PicoTCP, fixing PPP memory and pointer issues to improve stability on constrained hardware and ESP platforms. His background blends strong academic honors in intelligent electronics with practical product delivery across startups and large vendors, and he brings a knack for simplifying complex low-power radio and embedded systems constraints into producible designs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Industrial sciences - Electronics and ICT, Cum laude, Bachelor's degree, Industrial sciences - Electronics and ICT, Cum laude at Groep T - Internationale Hogeschool LeuvenBachelor's degree, Applied Informatics, Magna cum laude, Bachelor's degree, Applied Informatics, Magna cum laude at Lessius Hogeschool MechelenASO, ASO at Sint-Theresiacollege Kapelle-op-den-BosMaster's degree, Industrial sciences - Intelligent Electronics, Magna cum laude, Master's degree, Industrial sciences - Intelligent Electronics, Magna cum laude at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven7th year pop/rock/jazz, pop/rock/jazz, 7th year pop/rock/jazz, pop/rock/jazz at De kunsthumaniora
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (9)
c1710
ip10
embedded10
ppp10
c1110
sys10
tcp10
esp826610
modular-programming8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
tass-belgium/picotcp
Oct 2014 - Sep 2015
PicoTCP is a free TCP/IP stack implementation
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 pushes, 7 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Jonas primarily contributed to the `picotcp` repository by fixing bugs and improving the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) implementation. Their work involved correcting null pointer dereferencing issues, addressing memory deallocation errors, and updating the code to align with the latest ESP SDK. This included refactoring code, such as adding curly brackets and merging development branches, to enhance stability and compatibility with the target hardware environment.
tcptcpipcmodular
jonasvanpelt/barlights_files
Sep 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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