Embedded product experience, not just implementation
Vertices Network is led by Cyril Fougeray, an embedded software engineer with 10+ years of experience, including the past 7 years helping connected-device teams move from prototype hardware to production software. The work sits close to the hardware: firmware, RTOS-based systems, embedded Linux boundaries, secure peripherals, manufacturing diagnostics, and the debugging that happens when real boards meet real product constraints.
At Tools for Humanity, Cyril worked on the Orb, a production embedded device combining embedded Linux, multiple microcontrollers, advanced imaging, secure hardware, and manufacturing tooling. He fully owned the firmware for two STM32 microcontrollers, built with Zephyr RTOS, while also working on Rust software on the Nvidia Jetson Linux side. That work covered secure MCU integration, tamper-aware architecture, board bring-up, sensor and camera integration, diagnostics, and validation across firmware, electrical, RTOS, and Linux layers.
Before that, Vertices Network supported Smart & Connective on connected-building products such as smart thermostat and occupancy devices, with low-power microcontroller firmware, wireless communication, sensors, Docker-based workflows, and CI/CD. Earlier product work at Equisense and Spire built the foundation: Bluetooth Low Energy trackers and wearables, bootloaders, firmware updates, power optimization, sensor processing, production releases, and field reliability work.
Vertices Network has also built its own open-source embedded tooling, including c-vertices-sdk, a portable C library that lets embedded devices connect to Algorand APIs, with examples for Unix-based targets and ESP-IDF.
This is the perspective Vertices Network brings to client work: not only writing drivers or fixing isolated bugs, but understanding the full path from first board bring-up to production firmware, manufacturing validation, maintainable build systems, and software that can survive after launch.
We help hardware teams turn connected-device prototypes into product-grade embedded software.
Cyril Fougeray
