Jordi Castells
Senior Firmware Engineer at Kidde Global Solutions
Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJordi Castells is a Senior Firmware Engineer with 15+ years designing embedded and real-time systems across hardware startups and large companies, now at Kidde Global Solutions. He brings deep expertise in RTOS design, low-level firmware and driver development, communications protocols, and hardware bring-up, honed through long tenures at UTC Fire & Security and Ingenico. Jordi combines practical field experience with formal training in telecommunications and embedded systems from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the University of Connecticut. He is particularly adept at turning hardware constraints into robust, testable firmware architectures and has a track record of shipping reliable safety- and security-sensitive products. Based in the Barcelona metro area, he blends steady engineering leadership with hands-on coding and diagnostic skills often required in first-of-a-kind hardware deployments.
15 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Systems Engineering Certificate - Embedded Systems, Systems Engineering Certificate - Embedded Systems at University of ConnecticutUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Github Skills (31)
python10
django-framework10
django10
orm10
web-framework9
digital-elevation-model8
terrain6
elevation6
ats6
garmin6
strava6
census6
gpx5
footprint5
geopackage5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
kxtells/django
Apr 2021 - Feb 2025
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
django-frameworkpythonframeworkdeadlinesweb-framework
kxtells/kxtells_qgis_plugins
Jun 2012 - Jul 2020
Contributions:54 commits, 12 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 1 month
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