Pieter De Gendt
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at basalte
Ghent Metropolitan Area Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolPieter De Gendt is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer based in the Ghent area with 11 years of hands-on experience building low-level firmware and device drivers. At basalte he develops production-grade embedded systems, and as a long-standing contributor, maintainer, and TSC member of the high-profile Zephyr RTOS project he has added drivers and multi-instance support for Atmel SAM and NXP platforms. Pieter’s work blends hardware integration, peripheral control, and test validation—demonstrated by new ADC, I2C controller, and GPIO drivers he implemented and validated upstream. Trained in software engineering at Ghent University, he pairs academic rigor with pragmatic, field-proven solutions and a knack for turning complex hardware quirks into robust platform support.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Civil Engineering - Computer Sciences (Software Engineering), Master's degree Civil Engineering - Computer Sciences (Software Engineering) at Ghent University
Dutch, English, French
Github Skills (11)
embedded10
device-driver10
driver10
c-programming10
sys10
i2c9
gpio9
adc8
spi8
github5
linux5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Nov 2020 - Apr 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3519 reviews, 286 PRs, 1 push in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Pieter's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Zephyr Project's support for embedded systems, specifically for Atmel SAM and NXP i.MX platforms. Their work included adding a new Atmel SAM ADC driver, implementing a new NXP SC18IM704 I2C controller and GPIO driver, and adding support for multiple instances, addressing both hardware integration and device driver development for low-level peripheral control within the Zephyr RTOS. Further contributions involved integrating and validating new hardware, by addressing code issues and implementing test cases.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
pdgendt/cpprestsdk
Aug 2016 - Feb 2023
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
apicppasynchronousnative-codeclient-server
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