Christophe Schmid

Architect and derisk complex solutions across high-assurance systems, avionics cybersecurity, secure infrastructure, and emerging tech. Translate customer/operational needs into technical requirements, architecture decisions, and feasible solution strategies. Align executive stakeholders, business development, engineering teams, vendors, and technology partners. Evaluate products and suppliers via market analysis, benchmarking, and hands-on assessment. Hands-on work with aerospace/avionics engineering

Designed secure end-to-end architectures across embedded, edge, datacenter, and cloud environments. Conducted technology scouting and market analysis to identify suitable tech stacks, vendors, and design partners. Focused on aerospace/avionics architecture, Linux hardening (x86-64, AArch32/64), UEFI secure boot, TPM, IMA/EVM, and ARM TrustZone. Leveraged SDN, NFV, DPU, SmartNIC, FPGA, and Intel vPro technologies.

Led solution architecture for cybersecurity business development, RFIs, RFQs, RFPs, and proofs of concept. Architected reusable SDK, simulation, and IT infrastructures for secure embedded and IoT products. Introduced virtual-platform and RISC-V capabilities, enabling earlier software development and closing HW/SW design gaps. Reduced development-infrastructure delivery from 18–24 months to 3–5 months and cut reference-project lead times from 4 years to 1 year.

Led a team of embedded HW/SW specialists supporting a tooling portfolio for over 30 million lines of deliverable code. Owned architecture, development, industrialization, and support for smart-card tools (including SDK/IT infrastructure for TVkey). Reduced global support effort from 40% to 5% and overall product development lead time by 3–4x. Deployed advanced simulation (Synopsys, Imperas) and Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines.

Progression through key technical roles: Software Expert (2008–2011), Senior Smartcard Developer (2007–2008), Senior Smartcard Tools Developer - Crypto (2006–2007), Embedded HW/SW Engineer (2005–2006). Focused on embedded hardware/software development, cryptographic implementations, process virtual machines, and secure-chipset certifications.

Firmware developer using FPGA platforms for early prototypes of fabless radio IPs.

Formalized technology choices using Esterel simulation, reporting to the EMEA design manager.

Semiconductor Physics, Microengineering