Hi, I'm Nick. I help startups and small teams ship connected products that stay reliable in the field for years, not just months. Through my consultancy (NRB Tech) I design, build, harden, and support production-ready IoT and embedded systems end to end — firmware, wireless connectivity, secure OTA, and the companion iOS/Android app to go with it.
Recent work: a Zephyr/nRF firmware platform, iOS/macOS/Android apps, and a developer SDK for Bluetooth pedals used by musicians worldwide (AirTurn); USB-MIDI guitar-pedal controllers with reliable OTA (Positive Grid); an LTE-M vehicle security platform with BLE coexistence, aggressive low-power management, and an AWS backend (KēZ); and a remote-managed Raspberry Pi fleet driving an outdoor interactive light installation (ROUTES).
I'm best for: BLE / Nordic / Zephyr firmware, cellular IoT with low-power constraints, secure boot + OTA, hardware-paired iOS apps, technical audits of an existing product, and long-term maintenance of shipped devices. MEng in Electronic Engineering and a CSSLP, so I can interface with and debug hardware — though I don't take PCB layout or RF design as deliverables.
I work around outcomes rather than timesheets, usually starting with a short audit or discovery phase so we both have clarity before a larger build. Drop me a line with a short description of your project and we can arrange a call.
Remote: Yes (remote-first; UK/EU hours, happy to overlap US), or hybrid if nearby (Leeds/Manchester)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Embedded C/C++, Zephyr RTOS, nRF Connect SDK (nRF5x, nRF9x), Bluetooth LE, LTE-M / NB-IoT (Quectel BG77), Wi-Fi, LoRa, secure boot, signed firmware, DFU (MCUboot), USB MIDI/DFU, MQTT, Protocol Buffers. iOS/macOS — Swift, SwiftUI, CoreBluetooth, AccessorySetupKit. Linux SBC fleets (Raspberry Pi, Yocto/Buildroot, Tailscale), Python, Node/TypeScript, AWS (EC2/S3/CodeDeploy), PostgreSQL, Redis, Mosquitto.
Résumé/CV: https://nickbrook.me/files/NickBrook-Jun26.pdf https://nrbtech.io and https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickbrook/
Email: [email protected]
SEEKING FREELANCE WORK | Connected Product / Embedded & IoT Engineer
Hi, I'm Nick. I help startups and small teams ship connected products that stay reliable in the field for years, not just months. Through my consultancy (NRB Tech) I design, build, harden, and support production-ready IoT and embedded systems end to end — firmware, wireless connectivity, secure OTA, and the companion iOS/Android app to go with it.
Recent work: a Zephyr/nRF firmware platform, iOS/macOS/Android apps, and a developer SDK for Bluetooth pedals used by musicians worldwide (AirTurn); USB-MIDI guitar-pedal controllers with reliable OTA (Positive Grid); an LTE-M vehicle security platform with BLE coexistence, aggressive low-power management, and an AWS backend (KēZ); and a remote-managed Raspberry Pi fleet driving an outdoor interactive light installation (ROUTES).
I'm best for: BLE / Nordic / Zephyr firmware, cellular IoT with low-power constraints, secure boot + OTA, hardware-paired iOS apps, technical audits of an existing product, and long-term maintenance of shipped devices. MEng in Electronic Engineering and a CSSLP, so I can interface with and debug hardware — though I don't take PCB layout or RF design as deliverables.
I work around outcomes rather than timesheets, usually starting with a short audit or discovery phase so we both have clarity before a larger build. Drop me a line with a short description of your project and we can arrange a call.