Matthias Brändli
Software Engineer at Opendigitalradio
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMatthias Brändli is a software engineer based in Lausanne with 13 years of experience building systems at the intersection of software, RF and broadcast technologies. He leads the open-source ODR-mmbTools project, delivering a fully open digital audio broadcasting transmission chain, and contributes backend SDR support such as LimeSDR integration to notable projects like welle.io. At SwissMediaPartners and Digris he combines practical broadcasting expertise with embedded and backend software skills honed earlier at u-blox and EPFL. His background in communication systems and hands-on roles—from FPGA SDR platforms to campus radio leadership—gives him a rare blend of academic rigor and operational knowledge in live broadcast systems. Notably, he pairs production-grade development with deep protocol-level and hardware integration experience that helps bridge software and RF teams.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Communication Systems, Master of Science (MSc), Communication Systems at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
German, French, English, Spanish
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Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
software-defined-radio10
soap-client10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AlbrechtL/welle.io
Mar 2017 - Dec 2022
A DAB/DAB+ Software Defined Radio (SDR)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 446 commits, 22 PRs in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Matthias implemented support for the LimeSDR through SoapySDR by adding a new CSoapySdr.cpp file and a corresponding header. They added the SoapySDR driver and hardware key, master clock rate set to 16 kHz, RX rate set to 2048 kHz. The code also added support for setting the antenna to LNAW, setting the gain mode to automatic, and using the DC offset compensation.
software-defined-radiosdrrtl-sdrdabdabplus
Opendigitalradio/ODR-AudioEnc
Dec 2014 - Nov 2022
ODR-AudioEnc is a DAB and DAB+ audio encoder, part of the ODR-mmbTools.
Contributions:321 commits, 15 PRs, 185 pushes in 8 years
audioencoderodr-mmbtoolsdabdab-broadcasting
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