Artur Nidens

Freelancer as Embedded Software Engineer

Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Experience

Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
7 months
Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Freelancer as Embedded Software Engineer

Georg Fischer Rohrleitungssysteme Ltd.

  • Co design and implementation of communication protocol
  • Creation of custom MCUboot to match communication protocol
Oct 2023 - Apr 2025
1 year 7 months
Karlsruhe, Germany

Freelancer as Electronics Systems Engineer for Smart Grid

SMIGHT GmbH

  • Support in data analysis and visualization (with tools like Deepnote, SQL and Grafana) and quality assurance
  • Creation, execution and analysis of automated tests
May 2023 - Apr 2024
1 year
Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Freelancer as Electronics Systems Engineer for Smart Water Utility

Georg Fischer Rohrleitungssysteme Ltd.

  • Evaluation of subsystems for a smart PRV (RTU, sensors, actuator)
  • Testing of assembled system end to end from RTU to cloud (dry and on flow loop) regarding behaviour in application
  • Support for cloud conception and integration of RTU into cloud
May 2023 - Oct 2023
6 months
Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Freelancer as Software Engineer for Smart Home

MTCE GmbH

  • Development of embedded software for a DC drive, both low level (ADC, PWM, Timer) and application (inrush, duty cycle, end stop detection, calibration, positioning, etc.)
Apr 2022 - Apr 2023
1 year 1 month
Schaffhausen, Switzerland

Electronics Systems Engineer for Smart Water Utility

Georg Fischer Rohrleitungssysteme Ltd.

  • Technical project responsibility of electronic concept design for smart water network device consisting of radio, low power controller, sensors, electronic actuator
  • Review of requirements, architecture and risk and thread analysis
  • Technology radar for wireless communication (Embedded world expo, LoRaWAN world expo, Achema, Electronica /Wireless Congress)
  • Evaluation of new micro controller and integration into existing build system
  • Support of product management with functional rapid prototypes for data measurement, transmission and visualisation
Mar 2016 - Mar 2022
6 years 1 month
Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Software Engineer for Smart Home and Automotive

MTCE GmbH

  • Development of firmware for micro controllers for smart home and automotive applications (concept, implementation, verification)
  • Participation in creating specifications, reviews and releases
  • Focus on energy constrained low power devices
  • Controlling of electrical drives (mostly DC) for valves
  • Usage of both standard and proprietary radio communication
  • Development according to ASPICE/KGAS
  • Utilisation of static code analysis to meet software quality (MISRA, Metrics)
  • Creation of Python PC software for verification purposes on Linux systems (Raspberry Pi)
  • Coordination of new software team in Asia

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced

Education

Oct 2012 - Mar 2016

HFU

Bachelor of Science · Mechanical Engineering and Mechatronics · Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Bluetooth Low Energy Fundamentals

Nordic DevAcademy

Cellular IoT Fundamentals

Nordic DevAcademy

nRF Connect SDK Fundamentals

Nordic DevAcademy

Embedded C++ Advanced Course

TAE

MISRA C:2012

QA Systems GmbH