Abel Vesa
Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolAbel Vesa is a Senior Staff Engineer and Linux kernel specialist with 11 years’ experience focusing on ARM SoCs and upstream driver support. He maintains the i.MX clocks drivers and has contributed kernel support for multiple vendors’ platforms, including recent Qualcomm flagships. Abel’s background spans semiconductor and embedded firms—NXP, Linaro, Imagination Technologies and Continental—now bringing that platform expertise into Qualcomm. He combines deep low-level systems knowledge with proven upstreaming skills, routinely turning vendor patches into mainline-ready code. Based in Romania, he pairs a Master’s in Computer Engineering with hands-on kernel hacking discipline and a reputation for tackling complex clock, power and SoC integration challenges. A pragmatic maintainer, he’s comfortable working across silicon, firmware and kernel layers to deliver reliable production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Military Technical Academy "Ferdinand I"Master's Degree, Computer Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Engineering at Universitatea „Politehnica” din Timișoara
English
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Github Skills (64)
linux10
kernel10
zen9
linux-kernel9
u-boot8
bsp8
firmware7
caf7
imx67
arm7
raspberry-pi6
eagle6
oracle5
linaro5
upstream4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
abelvesa/linux
May 2016 - Jul 2026
Contributions:124 pushes, 22 branches in 10 years 3 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
abelvesa/msm
Feb 2023 - Dec 2024
Qualcomm mainline status
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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