Alexandru Palalau
Software Engineering Manager at NXP Semiconductors
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandru Palalau is a Software Engineering Manager based in Bucharest with 9 years of engineering experience and over 6 years leading embedded and Yocto-focused teams at NXP Semiconductors. He specializes in Automotive Linux BSP, CI-driven development and testing, and has deep hands-on expertise maintaining i.MX kernel support and firmware integrations in the meta-freescale Yocto layer. Known for building resilient teams, he aligns individual talents and passions with organizational needs while removing roadblocks through cross-regional coordination with global stakeholders. Previously at Intel he worked on Android/Android Things release engineering and public repository maintenance, bringing strong release and CI discipline to embedded projects. He combines practical embedded systems engineering with mentorship and process ownership, and often mentors students and junior engineers to grow the talent pipeline.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications Networks and Software Engineer, Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunications Networks and Software Engineer at Politehnica University Bucharest
Github Skills (9)
firmware10
arm10
updater10
embedded10
live-update10
linux-kernel10
sys10
c178
c118
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Freescale/meta-freescale
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Layer containing NXP hardware support metadata
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily contributes to the `meta-freescale` repository by updating and maintaining the i.MX kernel and related components for embedded systems. Their work includes updating kernel versions, syncing configuration files for various architectures, and upgrading firmware. They also modified recipes for kernel modules related to WiFi drivers and other firmware components, indicating a focus on hardware support and embedded systems integration. Furthermore, the user updates SRCREV for various embedded system components.
openembedded-layerqoriqyocto-bsphardwaremetadata
zeeblex/meta-freescale
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Layer containing NXP hardware support metadata
Contributions:6 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
endpoint-securitynxphardwaremetadata
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