Luis Ubieda
Elected Member Of The Technical Steering Committee at The Zephyr Project
Melbourne, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLuis Ubieda is a firmware and hardware engineer with 5 years of professional experience specializing in embedded C for IoT (BLE, WiFi, cellular) and digital electronics design including schematics, PCB layout, and assembly. As Lead Firmware Engineer at Croxel and an elected member of the Zephyr Project Technical Steering Committee, he bridges product development and open-source RTOS work—contributing Bluetooth extended advertising tests and UART-over-BLE improvements to a widely used real-time OS. Bilingual in Spanish (native) and English, he brings clear technical communication to cross-functional teams in Melbourne, Florida. His background spans end-to-end IoT delivery from photovoltaic systems early in his career to production firmware and hardware at scale. Colleagues know him for combining low-level protocol expertise with practical hardware craftsmanship and an ability to turn community-driven standards work into ship-ready features.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachiller Ciencias, Bachiller Ciencias at U.E Colegio ClaretBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical Engineering at Universidad Rafael Urdaneta
Spanish, English
Github Skills (9)
embedded-language10
embedded10
bluetooth-le10
rtos10
sys10
bluetooth10
iot9
microcontroller8
testing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Jul 2021 - Apr 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:753 reviews, 69 PRs, 461 comments in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Luis contributed to the Zephyr RTOS project by implementing tests related to Bluetooth extended advertisements and scanning. Their work included adding test cases to verify the functionality of extended advertising, including connectable and non-connectable modes, and demonstrating how to gracefully restart extended advertisements after disconnection. The user also refactored existing code and introduced new features, such as a dedicated workqueue for the UART over Nordic UART Service (NUS) driver and adding a snippet for easy enabling of UART over Bluetooth LE by passing `-S nus-console` during `west build`.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
ubieda/sdk-nrf
Sep 2021 - Jul 2024
nRF Connect SDK main repository
Contributions:18 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 10 months
connect-sdknrf-connect-sdklteinfinibandsystems-programming
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