Sara Monteiro
Global Product Marketing Manager - Healthcare Vertical at NXP Semiconductors
Campos dos Goytacazes, Rio de Janeiro, Austria
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Top SchoolSara Monteiro is a Product Manager with 8 years of experience combining business management training and hands-on IoT engineering contributions. Based in Campos dos Goytacazes with international ties to Germany, she brings a collaborative, problem-first approach that emphasizes understanding the "why" before splitting work for efficient delivery. Her background spans product and project management roles and technical contributions to the Apache NuttX RTOS and PX4/NuttX ports for ESP32, where she added watchdog, I2C, DMA serial and hardware support—an unusual blend of product strategy and low-level embedded expertise. Currently earning postgraduate credentials in Digital Transformation and Agility, she excels at translating technical constraints into practical product decisions while fostering team growth and shared ownership.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bacharel em Engenharia da Computação., Bacharel em Engenharia da Computação. at Instituto Federal Fluminense Campos Campus CentroTécnica em automação industrial Automação Industrial, Técnica em automação industrial Automação Industrial at IFF - Instituto Federal Fluminense
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (32)
timers10
realtime10
hardware-interface10
interrupt-handling10
timer10
watchdog10
c-programming10
c1110
microcontroller10
watchers10
c1710
i2c10
interrupt10
low-level-programming10
rtos10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
apache/nuttx
Sep 2020 - Dec 2023
Apache NuttX is a mature, real-time embedded operating system (RTOS)
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:249 reviews, 72 PRs, 9 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sara primarily contributed to the Apache NuttX RTOS, making changes related to embedded systems. Their work involved fixing typos, addressing type issues, and adding support for timers and user LEDs. Additionally, they implemented watchdog timer (WDT) support, crucial for system stability and reliability in embedded environments, along with I2C and hardware flow control support. The modifications spanned multiple hardware targets and subsystems within the RTOS.
embeddednuttxoperating-systemrtosreal-time
PX4/NuttX
Sep 2020 - Sep 2021
Standard NuttX (http://nuttx.org) with current PX4 WIP patches
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:85 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Sara primarily contributed to the NuttX RTOS port for the ESP32 platform, focusing on low-level hardware interactions. Their work included fixing typos, modifying code related to timers, and adding support for new hardware features such as user LEDs, watchdogs, and DMA-based serial communication. They also added support for I2C, demonstrating expertise in interfacing with peripherals on the ESP32 platform.
nuttxpx4
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