Alejandro Mery
Software Engineer (Remote) at JPI Technologies Ltd
Hove, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlejandro Mery is a seasoned software engineer with over 21 years of experience and deep expertise in Linux-based systems, embedded platforms, and C99 development for industrial controllers and kernels. He designs maintainable, scalable domain-specific solutions and long-term configuration management for servers, desktops, network appliances and embedded devices, having used Linux for 20 years and exclusively for 15. Alejandro has led board bring-up, device drivers and OS build-system modernization (OpenEmbedded/Yocto, BitBake), and built hybrid cloud and secure monitoring platforms combining Go, HTML5 and container tech. A long-term open-source contributor, his work on projects like linux-sunxi tools and libwebsockets shows low-level binary and memory-allocation mastery that enables robust integration with constrained environments. Based in Hove, UK, he blends hands-on firmware/kernel work with higher-level system architecture and product thinking for industrial and IoT applications.
21 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Engineering and Computing Science, Industrial Engineering and Computing Science at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Spanish, English
Github Skills (17)
system-configuration10
memory-management10
libwebsockets10
server-configuration10
c1110
hardware10
c1710
sys10
embedded10
configurations10
c-library10
allocator10
linux9
peripheral9
text-parsing8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
linux-sunxi/sunxi-tools
May 2012 - Aug 2014
A collection of command line tools for ARM devices with Allwinner SoCs.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:133 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Alejandro primarily focused on developing the `bin2fex` tool, which is designed for Allwinner SoCs. Their contributions involved implementing features for decompiling and processing binary files, including adding functionality to decompile various data types. The user's work demonstrates an understanding of the binary format of configuration files and involved refactoring and improving error handling within the tool. The user also worked on the fex2bin tool, implementing core parsing logic and file handling.
armcommand-line-toolsunxilinux-sunxiallwinner
linux-sunxi/sunxi-boards
Sep 2012 - Jul 2014
Repository of sys_config files for different sunxi (A10/A13/...) boards
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alejandro's contributions involve modifying system configuration files (.fex files) for various Allwinner sunxi boards, specifically the A10 and A13 processors. These configuration files define hardware parameters, including DRAM, LCD, and peripheral settings. The commits suggest a focus on enabling support for different hardware revisions, and also include contributions from external users.
syslinuxa13sunximanual
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