Ali Hozhabri is an application developer and embedded systems engineer based in Catania with two years of hands-on experience building firmware and low-level drivers for BLE and SPI-enabled devices. Currently at STMicroelectronics, he contributes to the Zephyr RTOS upstream—adding STM32 board support and refining SPI and BLE drivers—demonstrating strong mastery of device trees and hardware interfaces. His background includes designing a cost-reduced condition-monitoring embedded system (66% cheaper) and teaching AVR microcontroller workshops, showing both product-focused engineering and an ability to communicate technical concepts. Comfortable across C/C++ and Python toolchains, he pairs practical PCB and firmware skills with remote development workflows and Git-based collaboration. Notably, his open-source contributions to a major RTOS reflect a deeper commitment to robust, portable embedded software beyond typical internship projects.
2 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Electronics Engineering, 110L, Master of Science - MS, Electronics Engineering, 110L at Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electronics Engineering at Razi University
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions:73 reviews, 23 PRs, 90 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ali primarily contributes to the Zephyr RTOS project, focusing on embedded systems development. Their commits demonstrate a strong understanding of hardware interfaces, device tree configuration, and low-level drivers, especially for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and SPI communication. Key contributions include adding support for various STM32 boards, configuring BLE modules, and refining SPI driver implementations for improved performance and reliability. They've also worked on extending the capabilities of the SPI driver and related configuration macros.
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:1 PR, 190 pushes, 45 branches in 1 year 8 months
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