Victor Aprea
Owner CTO at Zynect
City of Ithaca, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Aprea is an entrepreneurial CTO and embedded systems engineer with 14 years of experience building internet-connected sensor products and IoT solutions that deliver actionable insights and peace of mind. As founder/CTO of Air Quality Egg, Wicked Device, and Zynect, he blends hands-on firmware and hardware design with product strategy to bring connected sensing from prototype to deployed systems. His background includes a decade at Lockheed Martin where he advanced complex engineering practices, and a Master of Engineering in ECE from Cornell underpinning his technical depth. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core MQTT support for Arduino in the widely used PubSubClient library—adding robustness and timeout controls that matter in real-world IoT deployments. Based in Ithaca, NY, he’s as comfortable optimizing low-level serial message handling as he is guiding product roadmaps and small engineering teams.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (18)
client-library10
c-language10
mqtt10
spi10
n10
mqttnet10
ethernet10
j10
iot10
sys10
dhcp10
embedded10
s6010
cprogramming-language10
arduino10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
knolleary/pubsubclient
Apr 2015 - Nov 2015
A client library for the Arduino Ethernet Shield that provides support for MQTT.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 16 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributed to the `PubSubClient` library, which provides MQTT support for Arduino. Their work focused on refactoring constructors using getters and setters, optimizing code, and adding a timeout setting for the `readByte` function, enhancing the library's robustness. The commits demonstrate improvements to the library's core functionality and connection handling, critical for IoT applications on Arduino platforms. The changes centered on improving code clarity and reliability related to message handling.
client-libraryethernet-shieldmqttarduinoarduino-ethernet
WickedDevice/OmniWheelControl
May 2014 - Jul 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 5 years 3 months
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