Maarten Pennings
Principal Engineer at ams OSRAM
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolMaarten Pennings is a Principal Engineer and embedded systems/software architect based in Eindhoven with a career spanning over 30 years designing hardware-software co‑designs for sensors, vision systems and consumer electronics. He currently leads cross–business reference designs and demonstrators at ams OSRAM, after driving on‑chip image processing features (HDR, motion, recognition, NN accelerators) and LiDAR/DMS solutions in the Image Sensor division. His work consistently bridges silicon, firmware, drivers and end‑user applications, with repeated roles as liaison to IC design teams and member of internal software governance boards. Maarten’s background includes system architecture and requirements leadership at NXP and Philips, plus teaching and research roles that underscore his ability to translate academic concepts into production products. He is especially skilled at specifying hardware blocks to enable sophisticated on‑chip software processing—an uncommon blend of analog/digital silicon understanding and software architecture. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, cross‑discipline solutions that turn complex sensor capabilities into demonstrable customer value.
9 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
MSc (Dutch: ir), Computer science, MSc (Dutch: ir), Computer science at Eindhoven University of TechnologyPhD, Incremental attribute evaluators, PhD, Incremental attribute evaluators at Utrecht UniversityAtheneum, beta, Atheneum, beta at Sint-Maartenscollege MaastrichtAtheneum, Atheneum at Gymnasium Augustinianum Eindhoven
Dutch, English, French, German
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Github Skills (50)
platformio10
arduino-nano10
arduino-uno10
ram10
nano10
esp826610
camera10
oscillator10
clock10
arduino-library10
nimble10
650210
eeprom10
sensor10
arduino10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
maarten-pennings/cmd
May 2020 - Jul 2024
Contributions:26 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
maarten-pennings/NarrowCast
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Contributions:41 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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