Alexey Brodkin
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Synopsys Inc
Braga, Portugal
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Top SchoolAlexey Brodkin is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with 13 years of experience leading global, cross-functional embedded software teams from Braga, Portugal. He drives delivery of runtime software across Linux, Zephyr RTOS and U-Boot while balancing roadmap planning, customer technical engagement, and hands-on kernel and toolchain work. His open-source contributions show deep expertise in enabling ARC processor support across Zephyr SDK, OpenEmbedded, OpenWrt and cross-toolchain projects—work that includes QEMU integration, glibc/newlib adjustments and architecture-specific kernel/toolchain fixes. Colleagues know him for turning intricate portability and emulation challenges into production-ready builds and for mentoring engineers to bridge low-level systems work with customer needs. He also teaches operating systems topics, bringing clear hardware-level insights (pipelines, MMU, interrupts) into team design discussions.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI" (ETU)
English
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Github Skills (53)
git10
buildroot10
crossbuild10
qemu10
architecture10
net10
memory-management10
build-system10
usb10
c-programming10
c1110
development-tools10
linux-kernel10
gnu-toolchain10
networking10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
crosstool-ng/crosstool-ng
May 2020 - Oct 2021
A versatile (cross-)toolchain generator.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 23 commits, 41 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexey contributed to the cross-toolchain generator project by addressing portability issues within the Binutils and GCC components, specifically regarding glibc compatibility and newlib integration. They also fixed a cross-compilation build issue for macOS related to the libgmp library and added support for ARC700 architecture in glibc. The contributions show a focus on ensuring the toolchain's ability to build software for different target environments.
generatorcross-toolchainversatiletoolchain
zephyrproject-rtos/sdk-ng
May 2020 - Mar 2022
Zephyr SDK (Toolchains, Development Tools)
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:14 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Alexey's primary contribution involves adding support for the ARCv2 architecture to the Zephyr SDK. This includes implementing core components such as QEMU support, enabling ARC64 support, and addressing icount issues. The changes encompass a large-scale integration of ARC-related code, suggesting a focus on processor architecture and emulation within the SDK. The user also added a separate QEMU recipe for ARC and made target memory size configurable.
development-toolstoolchainszephyr-sdksdksdk-components
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