FOUNDER & EMBEDDED SOFTWARE ENGINEER
@ VERTICES NETWORK

Building software that bridges the digital and physical worlds.

What I work on

I work across the device stack, from the first board bring-up to software that can ship, update, and keep running in the field.

Firmware & RTOS

C, C++, Rust, bare metal, and Zephyr—from board bring-up and drivers to maintainable application firmware.

Hardware integration

Sensors, power systems, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Ultra-Wideband, LPWAN, and CAN—connected into a coherent product.

Device systems

Embedded Linux, Android services, hardware-facing applications, and the interfaces that make a whole device work together.

Production engineering

Safety, observability, automated testing, reproducible builds, reliable updates, and software designed for long-term ownership.

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What has stayed constant

Autonomy, mastery, and purpose have shaped every chapter of my career—from the first connected products I shipped to the complex device software I help build today.

👨‍💻 Autonomy means taking ownership beyond the code: understanding the product, making sound trade-offs, and leaving a system healthier than I found it.

📖 Mastery is the habit of going one layer deeper. I am still driven by the same question that brought me to embedded systems in 2012: how does the whole thing really work?

🌟 Purpose is building technology that earns its place in the world—useful to people, dependable in practice, and developed with care.

Recent experience

More than a decade of taking connected products from an idea on a desk to hardware used in the real world.

Independent work since 2019

Vertices Network

Founder & Embedded Systems Consultant

I started freelancing during an eleven-month trip around the world and later created Vertices Network. Through projects for teams including Algorand Foundation, Smart & Connective, and Tools for Humanity, my work grew from MCU firmware into RTOS, embedded Linux, Android, connectivity, CI/CD, and production support.

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2021-2026

Tools for Humanity · World

Embedded Software Engineer

I help build device software for World's Orb: a sophisticated connected product where firmware, electronics, sensors, security, and product reliability meet. My public open-source work spans Zephyr-based microcontroller firmware and Rust system software.

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2015–2019

Equisense

Firmware Engineer

I joined while finishing my engineering degree and helped turn an early startup into shipped products. I owned firmware for connected horse-riding trackers, including the Kickstarter-backed Equisense Motion, and built production quality processes around them.

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About Me

Software engineer, product builder, and relentlessly curious generalist

I have been making software work with hardware since 2012. While studying computer science and earning an engineering degree in France, I spent six months in San Francisco with Spire, then joined the early team at Equisense before finishing school. That experience taught me what it takes to move from a prototype to physical products used in the field.

Since then, I have worked across low-power trackers, connected buildings, embedded blockchains, and World's Orb. Alongside that work, I continue to explore verifiable devices, Physical AI, and the Economy of Things through the open-source Vertices SDK.

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Hardware becomes a product when software makes it dependable.

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