Mathias Koch
Technical Lead, IoT & Connectivity at Factbird
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolMathias Koch is a Technical Lead in IoT & Connectivity with nine years of hands-on experience designing and shipping embedded systems, industrial automation, and connectivity solutions from prototype to production. With a Master’s in Automation and Robot Technology from DTU, he blends low-level C/C++ and Python development with systems thinking in hardware design and SolidWorks. He has led development of factory feedback platforms and LTE-based wireless products, and currently drives IoT strategy and delivery at Factbird. An active embedded contributor, Mathias implemented UART and DMA support in the popular Rust embassy framework, showing deep expertise in real-time hardware interaction. Based in Copenhagen, he pairs practical manufacturing domain knowledge with academic rigor and a knack for simplifying complex production data into actionable insights.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoHigher Technical Examination Programme, Communications, IT and English, Higher Technical Examination Programme, Communications, IT and English at Hansenberg - HTXBachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering at Danmarks Tekniske UniversitetInternational Business College (IBC)
English, Danish, German
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Github Skills (16)
uart10
embedded10
rust10
sys10
rp204010
dma10
interrupt9
async9
peripheral9
interrupt-handling9
device-driver9
asynchronous9
memory-management9
driver9
databinding6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
embassy-rs/embassy
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Modern embedded framework, using Rust and async.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 80 commits, 35 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mathias's contributions center around the implementation of UART communication and DMA support within the "embassy-rs/embassy" framework. They implemented blocking UART logic, including read and write functionality, with a focus on addressing overrun, break, parity, and framing errors. The user integrated DMA support, including DMA read and write functions, interrupt handling, and various methods for managing data transfers and memory access with DMA. This work involved substantial code changes within the embassy-rp module, demonstrating a focus on low-level embedded systems programming and hardware interaction.
asyncrustembeddedhaldrivers
FactbirdHQ/ublox-cellular-rs
Feb 2020 - Nov 2022
A driver crate for the entire u-blox cellular family in Rust
Contributions:1 release, 20 reviews, 137 commits in 2 years 9 months
cratedriverrustembeddedno-std
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