Ambassadors

Zephyr Ambassadors are individuals who are passionate about the RTOS, recognized for their expertise, and willing to help others learn about it and community. Successful ambassadors are people such as bloggers, influencers, evangelists who are already engaged with a Zephyr project in some way including contributing to forums, online groups, community events, etc.

If you would like an ambassador to speak at your event, please contact pr@www.zephyrproject.org with the name of the conference, date and links.

Current Zephyr Ambassadors

Senior Engineering Manager at Synopsys, Silver Member Representative
Alexey Brodkin

Firmware developer at Nordic Semiconductor
Carles Cufi

Security Committee Chair - Senior Engineer at Linaro, Silver Member Representative
David Brown

Elected Representative
Henrik Brix Andersen

Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation
Kate Stewart

Software engineer at Xiaomi Technology
Lingao Meng

Founder of Electrolance Solutions
Manojkumar Subramaniam

Zephyr Community Member

Marti Bolivar

Developer Relations Engineer at Golioth
Mike Szczys

Senior software engineer at Huawei
Wayne Ren

Senior Engineering Manager at Synopsys, Silver Member Representative

Alexey Brodkin

Alexey Brodkin is a Senior Engineering Manager at Synopsys, where he drives development of low-level run-time software for ARC processors. Alexey has been working with embedded systems for years starting from 8-bit MCUs and gradually shifting to high-performance multi-core 32- & 64-bit CPUs. He is the ARC architecture custodian at U-Boot bootloader, the co-maintainer of Linux kernel port for ARC, as well as a casual contributor to some other open source projects that he uses in his professional affairs. Today, with the increased complexity of deeply embedded systems, which require the use of more complicated software, Alexey applies his knowledge and experience with software tools and Linux development to the Zephyr RTOS.

Zephyr Community Member

Aveek Basu

Aveek has more than 15 years of experience in the Software industry handling different roles. He has been involved as a Community Manager for Open Printing for a couple of years and is also involved with SPDX and SDDI projects under The Linux Foundation. He is passionate about Open Source, Community building and IoT. He has been a Zephyr evangelist trying to encourage enthusiasts and students to contribute for the project.

Firmware developer at Nordic Semiconductor

Carles Cufi

Carles has been a firmware developer at several hardware, semiconductor and software companies for over 20 years, with a focus on microcontrollers. For the last 10 years he has worked at Nordic Semiconductor, where he was part of the team that brought to market Nordic’s first ever Bluetooth Low Energy chip, and has remained a member of the software development team since. During this time at Nordic he has also co-authored a book on Bluetooth LE and contributed to different areas of the software development effort, driving an internal push to contribute an existing proprietary Bluetooth LE Controller implementation as an open source component to the Zephyr project. With the controller now part of the Zephyr codebase, he widened his focus beyond Bluetooth Low Energy, helping ensure that Zephyr becomes the best possible open source all-purpose RTOS available.

Security Committee Chair - Senior Engineer at Linaro, Silver Member Representative

David Brown

David Brown is a member of the Linaro Vertical Technologies Group, and has worked on the Linux kernel, with a focus on security for a number of years. Recently, he has been focusing on security as it relates to IoT and embedded devices, including focusing on secure booting, and secure network communications. He is currently the Security Chair for the Zephyr Project, and a maintainer for the MCUboot secure bootloader.

Elected Representative

Henrik Brix Andersen

Henrik Brix Andersen works as Lead Embedded Software/Firmware Engineer at Vestas Wind Systems A/S

Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation

Kate Stewart

Kate Stewart is Vice President of Dependable Embedded Systems at The Linux Foundation. She is responsible for the Open Compliance programs. Her focus is on embedded open source programs, and working with them to improve best practices in security and support for use in safety critical applications. She has launched Real-Time Linux, ELISA, CHAOSS, SDDI and Zephyr Project. With over 35 years of experience in the software industry, she has held a variety of roles and worked as a developer in Canada, Australia, and the US and for the last 20 years has managed software development teams in the US, Canada, UK, India, and China.

Software engineer at Xiaomi Technology

Lingao Meng

Lingao Meng is a software engineer at Xiaomi Technology. He is engaged in the Bluetooth industry, Bluetooth Mesh, and makes his own contributions to the Zephyr Bluetooth Mesh protocol stack. He is currently a collaborator and Code Owner of Zephyr Bluetooth Mesh.

Founder of Electrolance Solutions

Manojkumar Subramaniam

Manojkumar is a passionate and experienced electronics product designer, and he has worked on various leading-edge, innovative market segments such as robotics, interactive gaming and industrial IoT. He is the founder of Electrolance Solution, which focuses on providing embedded system consulting services. Being hands-on in firmware programming, PCB design, assembly and manufacturing, Manojkumar offers clients the latest practical skillset.

Zephyr Community Member

Marti Bolivar

Marti is an embedded software engineer who has been a Zephyr contributor since 2016. He has contributed to multiple areas in the Zephyr project, including the west tool, devicetree API, device drivers, documentation, SoC porting, and board porting. Marti currently maintains west, Zephyr’s LED strip API, and the Python side of Zephyr’s devicetree tools.

Developer Relations Engineer at Golioth

Mike Szczys

Mike Szczys is a Developer Relations Engineer at Golioth. His deep love of microcontrollers began in the early 2000s, growing from the desire to make more of the BEAM robotics he was building. During his 12 years at Hackaday (eight of them as Editor in Chief), he had a front-row seat for the growth of the industry, and was active in developing a number of custom electronic conference badges. When he’s not reading data sheets he’s busy as an orchestra musician in Madison, Wisconsin.

Zephyr Community Member

Thea Clay

Thea is an expert on how to get started using Zephyr for your projects. Prior to this, she was a a developer evangelist for the Zephyr Project (Linux Foundation) and a developer advocate at Eclipse Foundation. She is passionate about data, connectivity and IoT.

Senior software engineer at Huawei

Wayne Ren

Wayne Ren is a senior software engineer at Huawei. He is contributing to Zephyr in his spare time now. He was a senior software engineer at Synopsys and located at Wuhan, P.R. China. He was one of the maintainers for the ARC architecture in Zephyr, the architect of embARC project, special member of TOPPERS project, and contributor of several other open source projects. His expertise includes embedded systems, RTOS, and IoT platforms etc. He holds a Ph.D Degree in engineering from Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech.

Apply to be a Zephyr Ambassador

In order to be considered for the Zephyr Ambassador Program, applicants should:

Possess a deep understanding of and passion for the Zephyr RTOS.
Be recognized in the community for their expertise and willingness to help others learn.
Actively and directly engage with the Zephyr project, with at least 1 year of experience with:
- Contributing and answering technical questions on Discord, GitHub, Stack Overflow, …
- Creating content such as blog posts, technical articles, videos
- Hosting, helping organize, or speaking at events and meetups where Zephyr is discussed.
Maintain an active presence on platforms or forums where they can promote and discuss the Zephyr project (ex. blogs, social media, etc.).
Adhere to the project’s Code of Conduct and champion a positive and inclusive community environment.

If that sounds like you and you would like to apply to be a Zephyr Ambassador, please Submit this Form.

Submissions are reviewed by Zephyr Project staff and current ambassadors.