Vilém Závodný
Senior Software Development Engineer at Espressif Systems
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
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Top SchoolVilém Závodný is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Brno with around 4 years of professional experience focused on embedded systems and IoT. He currently builds firmware and platform features at Espressif Systems and has a background in embedded Linux and R&D from roles at NXP and Freescale. His open-source contributions to the prominent esp-idf framework include adding LCD and touch-panel support, I2C/SPI integrations, and practical examples for shared SPI buses—showing he bridges low-level drivers and developer-facing demos. Trained in telecommunications and information technology, he combines hardware-aware software engineering with a history of web and scripting work, giving him a practical full-stack perspective uncommon in embedded specialists. Colleagues value his knack for turning peripheral quirks into robust, reusable framework extensions.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Elektrotechnika, Elektrotechnika at SOŠP E.Beneše a SOU BřeclavInženýr (Ing.), Telekomunikační a informační technika, Inženýr (Ing.), Telekomunikační a informační technika at Vysoké učení technické v Brně
English
Github Skills (9)
i2c10
esp-idf10
iot10
embedded10
serial-communication10
spi10
cprogramming-language10
sys10
iot-devkit10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
espressif/esp-idf
Mar 2022 - Dec 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:29 commits, 23 comments, 1 issue in 8 months
Contributions summary:Vilém primarily focused on modifying and extending the ESP-IDF framework, specifically for LCD display and touch panel integration. Their contributions include adding support for I2C and SPI communication, introducing features like reading parameters and registering event callbacks. Furthermore, the user added and fixed examples demonstrating the use of LCD controllers and touch panels, including shared SPI bus usage.
espressifdevelopment-frameworkesp-idfiotesp32
espressif/esp-bsp
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Board support components for Espressif development boards
Contributions:607 reviews, 74 commits, 325 PRs in 8 months
esp32esp-idfboardespressif
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