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.

Google

Debosmita Das

Principal Firmware Engineer at Qualcomm Inc

Eugene Cohen

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

Joe Baird

Senior Software Engineer at Nordic Semiconductor

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.

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.

Meta

Sethu Gopal