Pedro Direita
Embedded System Engineer at Celestia Portugal
Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
Summary
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Top SchoolPedro Direita is an Embedded System Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience designing and delivering IoT and firmware solutions, currently building products at Celestia Portugal. Rooted in a family of engineers, he has taken projects from concept to production—including a smartwatch he architected end-to-end with custom PCB design, C++ firmware, and 3D-printed casing. He led HackerSchool as president, formalizing recruitment and task-delegation processes that still drive the group, and has taught Arduino and backend workshops to the university community. His master's thesis focused on neural-network hardware accelerators, blending academic research with practical embedded systems expertise and an eye for performance optimization. Based in Lisbon and trained at Instituto Superior Técnico, he combines circuit-level intuition with firmware craftsmanship and experience in predictive maintenance IoT systems.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Eletrotécnica e Computadores Computadores, Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Eletrotécnica e Computadores Computadores at Instituto Superior Técnico
Github Skills (3)
beacon8
arduino6
smartwatch6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
HackerSchool/Workshop-Arduino
May 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 tag in 1 year 5 months
HackerSchool/Workshop-Backend-PHP-SQL
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:4 pushes in 6 days
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