Nicholas Savva
Firmware Team Lead at ORB Innovations
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Savva is a Firmware Team Lead with nine years of hands-on experience building embedded firmware in C/C++ for Arm Cortex‑M platforms, notably STM32 and nRF52, and leading cross-disciplinary teams at ORB Innovations. He specializes in real-time sensor processing and DSP for audio and biometric signals, with deep expertise in BLE, nRF Connect SDK/Zephyr RTOS, and test-driven CI/CD workflows. Comfortable across hardware design, C build systems like CMake, and Python tooling, he bridges firmware, electronics, and higher-level apps to deliver polished connected devices. His background in music, multimedia and electronics gives him a practical edge in audio production and signal work that informs product-level decision making. Equally at home mentoring junior engineers and shipping clinical-grade sensor features, he combines academic rigour from an MSc in Embedded Systems with startup agility.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Embedded Systems Engineering MSc Embedded Systems, Embedded Systems Engineering MSc Embedded Systems at University of LeedsGCSE's A-Levels, GCSE's A-Levels at Rooks Heath College
Greek, English
Github Skills (92)
bluetooth10
embedded10
hardware10
bluetooth-low-energy10
python9
machine-learning9
microcontroller9
iot9
neural-network8
deep-learning8
cryptocurrency8
trading8
language-bindings8
rtos8
blockchain8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
savvn001/STM32_FLIGHT_CONTROLLER
Jun 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:51 commits, 32 pushes in 4 months
savvn001/K64F-Sonic
Apr 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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