Nikita Pennie
Senior Software Developer at Orion Innovation
Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolNikita Pennie is a Senior Software Developer based in Serbia with a decade-long background in control systems and embedded software, and five years of focused industry experience. He has transitioned from PLC and SCADA work at Transneft—designing real-time process control algorithms—to embedded IoT development and platform porting for the Matter (Project CHIP) ecosystem, contributing platform-specific integrations like OpenThread, BLE and FreeRTOS on QPG. At Orion Innovation he has held senior roles across regional teams, bringing hardware-aware firmware skills together with application-level integration and ZCL/attribute API updates. He is comfortable working at the intersection of low-level drivers and higher-level connectivity stacks, which enables reliable productization of IoT features. Trained in automated control systems at Gubkin University, he combines industrial control thinking with modern connected-device engineering.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Automated systems of control and management, Engineer's degree Automated systems of control and management at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (National Research University)
English, Russian
Github Skills (18)
openthread10
freertos10
sys10
matter-js10
embedded10
c-language9
cprogramming-language9
microchip8
btle8
chips8
ip8
system-on-chip8
connected7
standard-js7
internet-of-things7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
project-chip/connectedhomeip
Mar 2021 - Oct 2022
Matter (formerly Project CHIP) creates more connections between more objects, simplifying development for manufacturers and increasing compatibility for consumers, guided by the Connectivity Standards Alliance.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Nikita primarily contributes to the QPG platform within the Matter project. Their work involves porting and adapting Matter-related features to the QPG platform, including configuring OpenThread, handling factory resets, and optimizing BLE and FreeRTOS integrations. They demonstrate a focus on hardware platform-specific code, and application-level integration and configuration within an embedded systems context. The commits also involve updating ZCL callbacks and attribute access APIs, suggesting an understanding of the Matter framework.
connectivity-standards-alliancebuild-with-matterguidedzephyrconnectivity
nikita-s-wrk/openthread
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
OpenThread released by Nest is an open-source implementation of the Thread networking protocol
Contributions:40 pushes, 6 branches in 9 months
socketc-librarynetworkingreliablereleased
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