Summary
Tristan Pensel is an Engineering Manager based in Issy-les-Moulineaux with 25 years of embedded software R&D experience and a decade working internationally. He leads cross-functional teams delivering complex real-time and IoT solutions, most recently managing navigation and timing systems at Safran and previously coordinating the porting and architecture of Sierra Wireless’s Legato framework to real-time OSes. Tristan combines hands-on firmware and system architecture skills (C, Linux embedded, vxWorks) with pragmatic project management—setting up reporting, Jira workflows and risk dashboards to keep multi-country teams aligned. He has a track record of translating marketing requirements into technical user stories and proving options via PoCs to meet tight customer deadlines. Notably, he’s balanced deep low-level expertise (boot/BSP and modem/GNSS/audio services) with people-focused leadership, mentoring engineers and integrating consultants across continents.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s degree, Electronic, Engineer’s degree, Electronic at Polytech Sorbonne
4-year University degree, Electronics, Electrotechnic and Automation, 4-year University degree, Electronics, Electrotechnic and Automation at Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)
French, Italian, English