Michael Kuyper Email & Phone Number

Greater Harrisburg Area

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Operated and maintained private LoRaWAN networks; performed deployment planning; developed tools to analyze network health, performance and coverage; provided firmware engineering services and other assistance to suppliers and device manufactures; prototyped and developed device hardware and software for PoCs; developed cloud-side device management and sensor data processing components.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

Developed, maintained, and lead the open-sourcing of LoRa Basics MAC, a portable LoRaWAN device stack and reference implementation based on TrackMAC; created a comprehensive simulation environment in Python for test-driven firmware development with support for LoRaWAN; contributed to numerous products containing embedded software, such as the LoRa Basics modem series and the LoRa Edge LR1110 chip; served as expert and contributor on the Technical Committee of the LoRa Alliance.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Lead a small team of developers responsible for development of LoRaWAN device firmware; developed and maintained TrackMAC, a LoRaWAN device stack and run-time environment for STM32, forked from IBM’s LMiC; designed, architected, implemented and deployed world’s first large-scale OTA firmware update solution for LoRaWAN; designed and implemented a LoRaWAN GNSS aiding solution to enable rapid cold-start location fixes on battery-operated asset trackers; worked with suppliers and device manufacturers on hardware design, analysis and testing; served as expert and contributor on the Technical Committee of the LoRa Alliance.TrackNet was acquired by Semtech in 2018.

Zürich Area, Switzerland

Research and software development in the following areas, public projects in parentheses:• LPWA network protocols (LoRaMAC/LoRaWAN);• IoT device stack software (IBM LMiC);• IoT device hardware design and software development (IBM HEMS controller for EcoGrid 2.0 EU project);• LPWAN gateway software development and integration (IBM LRSC);• Design and development of USB IF certified high-performance secure remote access device (IBM Secure Enterprise Desktop);• Design and development of secure authentication tokens (IBM ZTIC);• Implementation of key management solution for secure card personalization systems using end-to-end encryption with HSMs;• Highly optimized and certified cryptographic libraries (IBM CryptoLite in C);• Secure online banking solutions;• Standardization (technical expert and contributor to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC17/WG 10);• Secure identity documents such as e-Passports;• Applications, run-time systems and development tools for smart cards (IBM JCOP).

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Area

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Programming Team, ACM Student Chapter

High School Diploma

Economics