Available for projects · Valencia (CET/CEST)

Hi, I'm José Manuel.

Embedded Firmware & Software Engineer.
Bridging the gap between firmware, software, and applied research.

I'm José Manuel Requena Plens, an R&D engineer based in Valencia, Spain, specializing in embedded firmware (C/C++, STM32/ESP32), industrial software development, and applied acoustics research. My path runs from academic research in acoustics to industrial firmware development — and that breadth is what motivates me the most.

I thrive on integrating hardware and software end to end. I'm an active Open Source contributor whose tools are used by developers around the world, and a passionate self-hoster. My homelab serves this site and the public MCP servers anyone can point an AI client at. Check out my CV to see the full journey.

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Firmware / Software Eng.
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Firmware · Acoustics · DevSecOps
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Valencia, ES
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mcp · ai

gitlab-mcp-server

Model Context Protocol server that exposes more than 1,000 GitLab operations as AI-accessible tools.

Go stdio · HTTP
acoustics · dsp

phonometry

Acoustic measurement, analysis and prediction for Python, with 1447 CI-enforced conformance checks across 97 domains and 477 standards.

Python SciPy
network · security

cs-routeros-bouncer

CrowdSec bouncer for MikroTik RouterOS: automatic firewall management via the RouterOS API

Go RouterOS API
docs · templates

TFG-TFM_EPS

LaTeX template for Bachelor's and Master's theses at the University of Alicante (EPS), with an automated CI build pipeline.

LaTeX CI

I also contribute code and documentation to other open-source projects, such as acme.sh, Trilium Notes, and Nginx Proxy Manager. See the contributions →

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