Radim Karniš
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolRadim Karniš is a Senior Software Engineer at Espressif Systems with ~5 years of experience building open-source tools for IoT, notably contributing to the widely used ESP-IDF and esptool.py for ESP8266/ESP32 SoCs. He combines embedded C and Python expertise with DevOps practices to improve flashing tools, device configuration, ADC/BT subsystems, and documentation that power countless global IoT projects. Educated in automation, signal processing and cybernetics across Brno and Tampere, he brings a measured systems-thinking approach to low-level firmware and tooling. Equally comfortable presenting and mentoring as he is coding, Radim actively fosters community collaboration through talks and project stewardship. Outside engineering he applies his project management and leadership skills running major cultural and recreational initiatives in the Czech Republic, a hint of his knack for organizing complex, people-centered projects.
5 years of coding experience
Bakalář (Bc.), Automation and Measurements, Bakalář (Bc.), Automation and Measurements at Vysoké učení technické v BrněSignal Processing, Automation, Robotics, Signal Processing, Automation, Robotics at Tampere University
Russian, English
Github Skills (10)
c1710
esp-idf10
embedded10
c1110
sys10
cmake9
bluetooth-le8
adc8
bluetooth8
documentation7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
espressif/esp-idf
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
Espressif IoT Development Framework. Official development framework for Espressif SoCs.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 review, 17 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Radim primarily contributes to the ESP-IDF, an IoT development framework for Espressif SoCs, by making changes related to the esptool utility, including propagating environment variables and updating documentation references. They demonstrate expertise in flashing tools and device configuration by adding support for flash chip parameters, including the addition of functionality for the `mkdfu.py` tool to configure flash parameters. Furthermore, the user modifies components of the ESP-IDF related to ADC, BT, and system functionality.
espressifdevelopment-frameworkesp-idfiotesp32
radimkarnis/led-matrix-demo
Feb 2023 - Jan 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 1 comment in 10 months
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