Michael Opdenacker

Co-Founder

Orange, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France31 yrs 7 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

20 years of experience in embedded Linux engineering.
Speaker at over 20 international conferences.
Conducted 200-300 training sessions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled Embedded Linux Engineer with a focus on open-source software development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Embedded LinuxSystem Development

Other Skills

Linux KernelWordPressBoot TimeSoftware UpdatesYocto ProjectDevice DriversPerformance AuditingRISC-VU-BootLinux SecurityFlash MemoryMicrosoft Visual Studio CodeCommunity Developmentspdxsbom

About

I am an embedded Linux engineer, consultant and trainer. I spoke at more than 20 international conferences and conducted between 200 and 300 training sessions in 20 years. My areas of expertise are embedded Linux, Linux kernel device drivers, system development, in particular with Open Embedded and the Yocto Project, Buildroot, real-time, power management and boot time reduction. My goals are to contribute to the development of Free and Open Source Software, learn as much as I can, and share this knowledge with customers and with the user and developer community.

Experience

31 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 11 mos

Current Experience

Root commit

Embedded Linux Consultant and Trainer

Jun 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Orange, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France · Hybrid

Working as a consultant and trainer on embedded Linux related topics:
Embedded Linux System Development
System Development with OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project
Linux Kernel and Device Driver Development
Embedded Linux Boot Time Reduction

Embedded LinuxSystem DevelopmentLinux KernelWordPressBoot TimeSoftware Updates+7

The yocto project, a linux foundation project

Technical Writer and Documentation Maintainer

Mar 2021 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Orange, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

Maintaining the Yocto Project documentation on https://docs.yoctoproject.org/ . Encouraging and reviewing contributions, making updates and creating new content.

System Development

Bootlin

2 roles

Founder, Embedded Linux Engineer and Technical Trainer

Feb 2021 – Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Embedded Linux and kernel engineer. Trainer and speaker at international conferences.

Embedded LinuxSystem DevelopmentLinux KernelWordPressSoftware UpdatesPerformance Auditing+4

Owner, Embedded Linux Engineer and Technical Trainer

Nov 2003 – Feb 2021 · 17 yrs 3 mos

Grew Bootlin from a consultancy to a 12 people company with 90% of international customers.

Embedded LinuxSystem DevelopmentLinux KernelWordPressYocto ProjectPerformance Auditing+4

Linaro

Community manager and tech support engineer

Oct 2010 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 9 mos

Linaro Community Manager
Supporting a community of users and developers around Linaro projects, through on-line support and technical resources.

System Development

Texas instruments

CAD Support Engineer

Oct 2000 – Nov 2003 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Wireless Business Unit, Nice, France. Took care of front-line support on chip physical design tools (Synopsys, Magma, internal tools). Migrated design flows and compute farm to Linux servers.

Stmicroelectronics

CAD Software Engineer

Aug 1995 – Sep 2000 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Central R&D, Design Automation Department, Grenoble, France. Developed I/O and memory cell generators, as well as cell library validation tools. Trained and supported users in France, Italy and India.