Alexi Demers
Lead Embedded Linux Developer at SafelyYou
Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexi Demers is a Lead Embedded Linux Developer with 10 years of experience building resilient embedded systems across AgTech, GreenTech, mining and accessibility sectors. He combines deep hands-on expertise in BSPs, kernel and driver development, Yocto/Buildroot, OTA and fleet management with IoT cloud integrations (Azure/AWS) and edge gateway architectures. Equally comfortable on low-level board bring-up and high-level DevOps pipelines, he drives productization from prototype to certification and production support. Often the go-to "Linux systems expert" on cross-functional teams, Alexi also serves as scrum master and engages directly with customers on technical and business development topics. He champions clean code and pragmatic architecture, and has a track record of porting complex signal-processing and FPGA concepts into production-embedded software.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalauréat, Génie Électrique, Baccalauréat, Génie Électrique at École de technologie supérieureDEC, Technologie de systèmes ordinés, DEC, Technologie de systèmes ordinés at Cégep Limoilou
French, English
Github Skills (6)
bsp7
yocto6
orangepi4
garmin3
ros2
computer-vision1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Blink-Project/meta-orangepi-r1plus-bsp
Feb 2021 - Nov 2022
Yocto BSP layer for orangepi-r1+ Legacy and LTS, written by independent developers. See this link for example usage: https://github.com/Blink-Project/yocto-orangepi-r1plus
Contributions:4 reviews, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year 9 months
bsporangepiyocto
Blink-Project/yocto-orangepi-r1plus
Jan 2023 - Jan 2025
Central Yocto Repository for generating Orange Pi R1+ Legacy/LTS images using Blink OS distro
Contributions:8 releases, 7 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years
orangepiyocto
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