Raphael Baron
Software Engineer at Google
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Baron is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building products across startups and large tech, currently contributing at Google from Switzerland. Trained in mechatronics and robotics (MSc TU Darmstadt, BSc USP), he blends embedded systems expertise—evident in his open-source DIY soil moisture sensor with custom BLE/BTHome protocols—with cloud and web development from roles at Booking.com and his own co-founded ciclo-mobi startup. He has a strong research background in computer vision and has moved fluidly between research labs and product teams, shipping vehicle route optimization, real-time fleet tracking, and scalable services. Comfortable across low-level firmware to distributed systems, he brings a pragmatic engineering approach informed by hands-on hardware projects and academic rigor.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtBachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo
English, German, Portuguese
Github Skills (26)
c-language10
python10
sphinx10
rs10
bluetooth-le10
esp826610
iot10
btle10
sys10
esp3210
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
bluetooth-low-energy10
sensor10
iot-devkit10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rbaron/b-parasite
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
🌱💧 An open source DIY soil moisture sensor
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 243 commits, 76 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Raphael primarily focused on developing firmware for a DIY soil moisture sensor. Their contributions include implementing basic functionality such as blinking LEDs, along with the creation of a custom BLE advertising protocol. Furthermore, they integrated temperature and humidity readings from an SHTC3 sensor, and they also implemented ADC based measurements including soil moisture and battery voltage. Moreover, they created a BTHome compatible BLE protocol.
nrf52moisture-sensorsoil-moistureblebluetooth-low-energy
rbaron/eink-ha
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 4 pushes, 5 comments in 1 year 3 months
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