Nicolas Jourden
Embedded Software Engineer at L3Harris Technologies
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Jourden is an embedded software engineer based in Montreal with about a decade of experience delivering embedded and IoT solutions across defense, maritime research, and industrial domains. He currently serves as an Embedded Software Engineer at L3Harris Technologies, designing and implementing software for resource-constrained systems and collaborating closely with hardware and firmware teams. His technical breadth spans Arm, Motorola, Microchip PIC, FPGA, and J2ME, with hands-on Linux (Debian, Buildroot, OpenEmbedded) and strong skills in C/C++, plus Perl, SQL, Java, VHDL and UML. He is proficient with CAN, RS-232/485, Ethernet and IP networks, and has practical experience across software, hardware interfaces and cross-platform toolchains. An active open-source contributor, he extended collectd with GPSd data collection, demonstrating his ability to integrate hardware data streams and collaborate across projects. Relocated to Canada with his partner and son, he is a landed immigrant since 2019 and brings bilingual capabilities in French and English to dynamic, multidisciplinary teams.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BTS, Informatique industrielle et réseaux, BTS, Informatique industrielle et réseaux at Lycée Jules Ferry, VersaillesIFIPS - Institut de Formation d'Ingénieurs de la faculté Paris Sud
English, French, Dutch, Russian, Italian
Github Skills (28)
c-language10
pthread10
c1110
collectd10
c1710
meter10
pthreads10
c-programming-language10
metric7
rrdtool3
influx-db3
metrics-server3
influx3
kafka-js3
daemons3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
collectd/collectd
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
The system statistics collection daemon. Please send Pull Requests here!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 9 comments in 16 days
Contributions summary:Nicolas implemented initial support for GPSd within the collectd system, adding code to read data from GPS devices. They integrated a thread to manage the GPS data retrieval and submission, including handling configuration parameters like host, port, and timeout. Subsequent commits merged the GPSd branch and incorporated updates from other contributors, demonstrating integration and collaboration skills. The user's primary focus was on extending collectd's data collection capabilities with GPS functionality.
metrics-servermqtt-serverriemann-clientrrdtoolgraphite-client
NicolasJourden/buildroot
Jun 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 10 months
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