Christina Quast
Embedded Systems Developer at Freelance
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolChristina Quast is an embedded systems developer with over a decade of hands-on experience and more than five years focused on embedded Linux, board bringup, Yocto/PTXdist and kernel driver development. She combines low-level C and assembler expertise with growing Rust and Python skills, contributing upstream to the Linux kernel and maintaining an active open-source presence. Her background spans firmware, U-Boot, devicetree and peripheral drivers across commercial and research settings, including a CERN master’s project that ported a particle ID algorithm to many-core hardware. Fluent in German, English and Russian and comfortable in multiple other languages, she’s based in Zurich and available for freelance work ranging from C-to-Rust conversions to workshops and kernel driver projects in Switzerland. A practical problem-solver, she often bridges academic research and production systems, bringing deep protocol and architecture understanding to embedded designs.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical Engineering at Technische Universität BerlinGerman Diploma (equivalent to university bachelor's degree), Computer Science, German Diploma (equivalent to university bachelor's degree), Computer Science at Berufsakademie LeipzigBachelors, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelors, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
German, English, Russian, French, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Italian
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Github Skills (33)
firmware10
usim10
hardware10
smartcard10
sim-card10
wireshark10
gsm10
security9
radare29
reverse-engineering9
unix8
command-line8
ctf8
op-tee7
linux6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chrysh/chrysh.github.io
Jan 2024 - Jun 2026
A blog about Linux Kernel Programming.
Contributions:2 PRs, 54 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
chrysh/ctf_writeups
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
ctfwriteup
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