Karibe D
Senior Firmware Engineer at Pessl Instruments GmbH
Weiz, Styria, Austria
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Top SchoolKaribe D is a senior firmware and embedded systems engineer with 12 years' experience delivering hardware and firmware for wearable, IoT, wireless communications and energy-harvesting products. Currently leading camera and Metos 3 weather station firmware at Pessl Instruments, he combines board bring-up and peripheral driver implementation with PCB design and hands-on testing. His background spans founding consulting ventures and startups—building BLE/WiFi gesture-capture hardware for sign language translation and remote solar monitoring systems—giving him both product-focus and field deployment experience. He also brings academic engineering depth from roles at the University of Nairobi where he taught embedded systems, performed ARM board bring-up and systemC modeling. Based in Weiz, Austria, Karibe is comfortable moving between schematics, firmware and system-level simulation to turn complex sensing requirements into robust, deployable devices.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Second Class Honours, Upper division, Bachelor’s Degree, Physics, Second Class Honours, Upper division at University of Nairobi
English, Kiswahili, German, Kikuyu
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Github Skills (66)
ubuntu10
iso10
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debian9
linux9
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debian-linux9
u-boot9
bitbake9
linux-distribution9
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Muriukidavid/cplusplus_examples
Oct 2014 - Feb 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 27 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 3 months
cppc-plus-pluscpp17
Muriukidavid/gimp-plugins
Aug 2015 - Jan 2019
Contributions:15 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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