Technical Steering Committee

Software Architect at Arm

Abhishek Pandit

TSC Chair - Principal Software Engineer at Intel

Anas Nashif

Alif Semiconductor

Bhupesh Kharwa

VP of Developer Experience & Engineering at Blues Wireless

Brandon Satrom

Brandon Satrom is Vice President of Developer Experience & Engineering at Blues. An unabashed lover of the IoT, the web, mobile and an avid tinkerer, Brandon loves to talk about sensors and circuits, microcontrollers, open source, robots and whatever new shiny tool or technology has distracted him from that other thing he was working on. Brandon has spoken at national, international and online events, and is the author of five books.

Senior Solutions Architect at Sternum

Bruno Rossi

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.

Embedded Software and Kernel Engineer at BayLibre SAS

Carlo Caione

Carlo Caione works as Embedded Software and Kernel Engineer at BayLibre SAS. Former Linux kernel maintainer he is now mostly active in the Zephyr project where he is the ARM64 port maintainer and active in a lot of other areas, including RISC-V architecture support, IPC, cache API, etc…

Principle SAFe System Architect at Demant

Danny Ørndrup

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.

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.

Firmware Solutions Engineer at Memfault

Eric Johnson

Senior Software Engineer at Percepio AB

Erik Tamlin

Principal Software Engineer at STMicroelectronics

Erwan Gouriou

Erwan Gouriou works as Principal Software Engineer at STMicroelectronics

Principal Firmware Engineer at Qualcomm Inc

Eugene Cohen

Security Architect - Senior OS development engineer at Intel Corporation

Flavio Ceolin

Flavio is a senior OS development engineer at Intel, longtime Zephyr contributor and the current security architect. He also maintains other subsystems in the project like power management.

CTO and VP Product at MicroEJ

Frédéric Rivière

Frederic serves as a CTO and VP Product at MicroEJ and is responsible for the entire product’s consistency, architecture, and future evolutions.
Besides his core compilation and virtual machine activities, Frederic also designed and organized the technology key concepts & workflows. He is fascinated by the unlimited potential of MicroEJ’s unique technology, and is very proud of the many customer products “Powered by MicroEJ” on the market.

Elected Representative

Henrik Brix Andersen

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

Principal Software Engineer at Infineon Technologies

Ian Fyall

Ian Fyall is an engineering manager at Infineon Technologies, where he drives integration of Infineon devices into 3^rd-party environments, ecosystems or SDKs such as Zephyr RTOS and the Matter standard. Ian has been working with embedded devices for 20+ years, including custom 8-bit MCUs and early ARM Cortex-Mx-based devices. He was a contributor and eventual project lead for the PSoC Creator IDE and ModusToolbox ecosystem. He has worked with and contributed to open source projects such as Mbed OS, Amazon FreeRTOS, Matter and Zephyr. Modern embedded software, especially for IoT, benefits from a rich ecosystem of open-source solutions. Ian works to support Zephyr RTOS in addressing the wide variety of hardware and software solutions that its users are looking for.

Embedded Software Development Engineer at ZEISS

Jilay Pandya

I am a dedicated software developer with a passion for working on cutting-edge products. My present fascination is in Zephyr Project, which I actively engage with both professionally and in my free time. I am highly motivated by the challenge of designing modular components that work together seamlessly.

Staff Software Development Engineer at Silicon Labs

Johan Hedberg

Nordic Semiconductor

Johann Fischer

Engineering Manager at Antmicro

Karol Gugala

Staff Software Engineer at Google

Keith Short

Keith Short has worked in embedded systems for 20+ years.  Keith currently works at Google on ChromeOS and is the technical lead to switch the embedded controller implementation over to Zephyr.

Distinguished Engineer / Chief SW Architect at Analog Devices

Kumar Gala

Elected Representative

Luis Ubieda

Luis Ubieda works as a Lead Firmware Engineer at Croxel Inc.

Senior Software Engineer at NXP Semiconductors

Mahesh Mahadevan

Principal Engineer at Qualcomm

Marti Bolivar

Elected Representative

Martin Jäger

Martin Jäger is Founder and Lead Developer at Libre Solar.

Hardware/Firmware Engineering Manager at Arduino

Martino Facchin

Senior Software Engineer at TI

Masha Heller

Senior Director of System Safety and Validation (SDV Hub) at CARIAD

Matthew Wood

Distinguished Engineer at Analog Devices

Maureen Helm

Systems Software Engineer at Meta

Maxim Adelman

Embedded team lead at AVSystem

Mieszko Mieruński

Principal Engineer at Whirlpool Corporation

Nelson Ferragut

Nelson is a highly accomplished Principal Embedded Software Engineer with 30 years of experience at Whirlpool Corporation. Specializing in microcontrollers, Nelson has a distinguished track record of developing innovative software solutions for a wide variety of kitchen and laundry appliances. A lifelong learner, Nelson is passionate about staying abreast of the latest technologies and tools to further enhance his expertise.

Senior Firmware Engineer - RF Stack and Accessories Software at Demant

Nirosharn Amarasinghe

Manager, Systems Design Engineering at Renesas Electronics

Onkar Raut

CEO at Antmicro

Peter Gielda

Elected Representative

Pieter De Gendt

Principal Technologist at Wind River

Rob Woolley

Rob Woolley is a Principal Technologist at Wind River in the CTO Office. He tracks emerging technologies to adapt and integrate into Wind River’s platforms and operating systems. This includes using cloud-native technologies to orchestrate workloads on edge devices. As well as how to embrace DevSecOps methodologies to build real-time and AI applications for embedded devices.

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.

Training Engineer at Ac6

Roy Jamil

Roy Jamil is a Training Engineer at Ac6, holding a PhD in Asymmetric Multiprocessing (AMP) and real-time embedded systems. He has trained hundreds of engineers annually. His experience includes programming, Linux, Yocto, and Real-Time Operating Systems. Additionally, Roy authored a comprehensive Zephyr training course, which has garnered the attention and participation of hundreds of engineers.

System Architect at Synopsys

Ruud Derwig

Ruud Derwig has 25+ years of experience with system architectures for embedded systems. Key areas of expertise are hardware and software IPs for security, (real-time) operating systems and other low-level platform software. He holds a master’s degree in computing science and a professional doctorate in engineering. Ruud worked at Philips Research and NXP Semiconductors and is currently Security & Systems Architect in Synopsys’ Solutions Group.

Ruud has been participating in and contributing to various Open Source and industry consortia, such as the CE Linux Forum, Linux Foundation, EEMBC, and various European innovation projects. He has been active in the Zephyr project since its start as the maintainer for the ARC architecture and is a member of the TSC, Security committee, and Security working group.

Firmware and Software Developer at Ezurio

Ryan Erickson

Embedded Software Engineer at Meta

Ryan McClelland

Ryan is an Embedded Software Engineer at Meta, with a focus on AR/VR Research within the Reality Labs Research Division. With over 10 years of Firmware/Embedded Software Experience and just over 5 at Meta, Ryan has lead firmware development on many AR/VR Research prototypes. during his time at Meta.

Lead Firmware Engineer at Golioth

Sam Friedman

Sam Friedman is the Lead Firmware Engineer at Golioth, the Universal Connector for IoT. Prior to Golioth, Sam worked for various consumer electronics and IoT companies building products that have shipped millions of units worldwide. He enjoys working on all parts of the firmware stack, from device drivers to UI, but there’s a soft spot in his heart for the operating system. There’s probably something fermenting on his kitchen counter.

Embedded Software Development Engineer at Carl Zeiss Meditec AG

Severin Maher

Safety Architect & Committee Chair - Embedded software/firmware engineer at Baumer

Simon Hein

Simon is an embedded software/firmware engineer at Baumer. Within his years at Baumer, he has worked on various sensor and encoder projects. Before his time at Baumer, he worked in the automotive industry on middleware and diagnostic software projects of automatic transmission control units.

Staff Software Engineer at Qt Company

Timo Aarnipuro

Embedded Software Engineer at Intel

Tom Burdick

Senior Software Engineer at Google

Yuval Peress

Yuval has previously worked as a full stack engineer with experience in military controls, Android gaming, server & database design, mobile application design, augmented reality, and embedded computing. Yuval currently works at Google on Chrome OS’s firmware specializing in sensors.