Governing Board

Governing Board Chair - Director of Open-Source OS Engineering at Intel

Amy Occhialino

• Amy Occhialino has spent 25 years in the technology industry with Intel Corporation.
• She started as a process engineer focused on chemical engineering in the late ’90s and spent 20+ years working in all aspects of Intel’s semi-conductor manufacturing, from high-volume lean manufacturing to silicon technology development.
• Five years ago, Amy took the leap to another other side of Intel and began working in open-source software development.
• She is currently Director of OS Engineering, designing and delivering a real-time operating system (RTOS) called the Zephyr Operating System, optimized for Intel’s firmware and embedded microcontrollers.
• Amy is a leader on the board of directors that oversees the open-source governance and strategic direction for the open-source Zephyr Project, hosted at The Linux Foundation (https://www.zephyrproject.org/).
• She has spent over a decade founding and leading women’s organizations within Intel, advocating for diversity, inclusion, and equity.
• In her personal life, Amy lives in North Portland’s St. John’s neighborhood with her husband and 11-year-old twin boys, who currently believe that they are budding Timbers players, and is one of the parent leaders within her amazing local Hispanic public-school community.

TSC Chair - Principal Software Engineer at Intel

Anas Nashif

Senior Director, Chipset Firmware at Demant

Bjarne Kielsholm-Ribalaygua

Security Committee Chair - Senior Engineer at Linaro

David Brown

David Brown is a member of the Linaro Security Working 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.

Software Engineering Architect & Manager at NXP Semiconductors

David Leach

David Leach has been a software engineer through various technology fields for over 35 years. He joined Freescale Semiconductors (now NXP Semiconductors) in 2015 as a software architect to help lead connectivity and various standards engagements. For the last several years, he has been participating in NXP’s open-source software activities and is currently leading the MCU Open-Source Software team in the Security & Connectivity Business Line. David serves as one of NXP’s Zephyr Technical Steering Committee members and he represents NXP on Zephyr’s Governing Board.

Engineering Manager at Google

Eric Peers

Eric Peers is a manager at Google, in ChromeOS, leading teams working on firmware. He previously led software engineering for AMD based chromebooks at Google with a notable “Best of Show” award at CES. Eric has a history of x86 chip design, building startups, and leading software teams. He was a logic designer for the Geode microprocessor for one-laptop-per-child, validated hardware for the Kepler space telescope, and built an embedded software stack for a wearable NFC payment device. When he isn’t in a meeting room or tearing apart a laptop, Eric can be found outside running or skiing with his wife and 12 year old daughter.

Principal Firmware Engineer at Qualcomm Inc

Eugene Cohen

Hardware Product Technical Leader for IoT and Developer Products at T-Mobile

Joe Baird

Distinguished Engineer / Chief SW Architect at Analog Devices

Kumar Gala

CEO at Antmicro

Peter Gielda

Lead Embedded Software at Baumer

Roman Kellner

Roman has been an embedded software developer in various industries such as spinning machinery, fleet management, railway and sensors for over 20 years. He currently leads the embedded software team at Baumer’s Switzerland site and coordinates the companies activities around Zephyr OS.

Software Engineering Manager at Meta

Sethu Gopal

Sethuraman Gopal has worked on firmware for the last 20 years in the areas of Wireless Systems, Automotive and High-Performance Computing. He currently leads a team of Platform Software Engineers developing for ML & Multimedia ASICs at Meta as a Software Engineering Manager. He represents Meta at the Zephyr Governing Board.

Head of Technologies and Platforms Anterior Segment (MED-OAR / Medical Technology) at ZEISS

Vitalij Selynin

Safety-critical embedded systems in the medical sector

Technical Product Manager at Nordic Semiconductor

Wojciech Bober

Wojciech Bober is a Technical Product Manager for Nordic Connect SDK. He has over 15 years of experience in embedded software development that spans different domains (academia, startups, and industry) and roles (from individual contributor to managerial).