PieterĀ Smith
System Software Architect at Thermo Fisher Scientific
Eindhoven, North Brabant, Netherlands
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Top SchoolPieter Smith is a System Software Architect with 23+ years of experience designing software-centric multidisciplinary systems across commercial, automotive, industrial and high-reliability domains, currently shaping TEM product platforms at Thermo Fisher. He specializes in Risk and Cost Driven Architecture (RCDA), helping organizations reduce long-term evolution and maintenance risk while aligning product roadmaps with business needs. Pieter blends hands-on embedded and Linux development with leadership, having led cross-functional teams to ship award-winning EV and IoT products and to industrialize constrained Embedded Linux systems like the Philips Hue bridge. He has deep experience in real-time and motion software, industrial networking and SDV/ISO 26262 processes, and routinely coaches teams to adopt disciplined architectural and testing practices. Notably, he repeatedly succeeds in uncertain start-up and scale-up environments, turning retrenchment and bankruptcy-impacted roles into fresh architectural impact and learning opportunities. Based in Eindhoven, he remains an active collaborator eager to connect on challenging system-architecture problems.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
University of Johannesburg 
English, Dutch, Afrikaans, German
Github Skills (6)
bootloader10
embedded10
sys10
makefile10
arm7
linux7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
smipi1/f7-example
May 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 reviews, 49 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 years 9 months
smipi1/linux-tinification
Oct 2014 - Nov 2014
Contributions:95 commits in 1 month
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