Stelios Filippopoulos

Senior Embedded Firmware Engineer | CAN

Salary / Daily rate

Greece, NY 14626, USA

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Languages

English

About me

Intro

Embedded systems engineer with 25+ years of firmware development expertise across major tech companies like NXP, Thales, and Renesas. Specialized in ARM Cortex-M, FreeRTOS, CAN protocols, and cryptographic security implementations. Ready to deliver robust, optimized firmware solutions for your next embedded project.

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Work experience

Embedded Systems Engineer

GWF AG

Mar 2025 - Present

1 year 8 months

Thessaloniki, Greece

Mainly responsible for implementinmg new features in firmware, optimize code, development of enhanced algorithms, code security and authentication using crypto algorithms.

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Sicoya GmbH

Jun 2023 - Jul 2024

1 year 2 months

Berlin, Germany · Remote

Skills: Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · ARM Cortex-M · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Embedded Firmware Engineer

ROSEN

Sep 2023 - Mar 2024

7 months

49 Lingen, Germany

Skills: CANopen · CAN · Python (Programming Language) · Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · FreeRTOS · ARM Cortex-M · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Test embedded systems engineer

NXP Semiconductors

Nov 2022 - Aug 2023

10 months

Munich, Germany

Skills: Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · ARM Cortex-M · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Thales Alenia Space

Jan 2022 - Oct 2022

10 months

Ditzingen, Germany

Skills: CAN · Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · FreeRTOS · ARM Cortex-M · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Embedded Systems Engineer

GWF AG

Apr 2021 - Dec 2021

9 months

Thessaloniki Metropolitan Area · On-site

Skills: Python (Programming Language) · Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · C (Programming Language) · Firmware · TMS430

Embedded Firmware Engineer

ROSEN

Oct 2019 - May 2020

8 months

49 Lingen, Germany

Skills: CANopen · CAN · Python (Programming Language) · Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · ARM Cortex-M · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Acromove inc

Jun 2017 - Dec 2019

2 years 7 months

Athens, Greece

Skills: CAN · Python (Programming Language) · Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · FreeRTOS · ARM Cortex-M · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Nidec Motor Corporation

Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

6 months

Merbelsrod, Turingen, Germany · On-site

Skills: Python (Programming Language) · Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · ARM Cortex-M · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Hitex GmbH

Sep 2018 - Mar 2019

7 months

76 Karlsruhe, Germany

Skills: Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Power Plus Communications

Mar 2018 - Aug 2018

6 months

68 Mannheim, Germany

Skills: Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Servus Intralogistics GmbH

Jul 2016 - Dec 2017

1 year 6 months

6850 Dornbirn, Austria

Skills: CANopen · CAN · Python (Programming Language) · Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · FreeRTOS · AVR32 · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Renesas Electronics

Apr 2016 - Jul 2016

4 months

40 Düsseldorf, Germany

Skills: C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Embedded Firmware Engineer

Nomad Digital

Dec 2015 - Mar 2016

4 months

31 Hildesheim, Germany

Skills: Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · AVR32 · C (Programming Language) · Firmware

Test Development Engineer

X-FAB

Apr 2015 - Dec 2015

9 months

99 Erfurt, Germany

Skills: Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter (UART) · C (Programming Language) · Firmware


Education

National Technical University of Athens

McS

2004 - 2006

2 years 3 months

University of Patras

McS

1985 - 1990

5 years 2 months

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