Álvaro Lopes
Senior Engineer at Critical Software
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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Top SchoolÁlvaro Lopes is a Senior Engineer with 17 years' experience bridging hardware and software for safety-critical domains, currently embedded in DO-178B/C avionics projects at GE Aviation via Critical Software. He combines deep low-level programming (Assembly, C/C++), Linux kernel and driver development—including a Linux port to the ZPU—and RTL/hardware design skills (VHDL, Verilog, SystemC) with proven SoC and microprocessor implementations such as the Arduino-compatible 32-bit ZPUino. His background spans avionics and automotive safety processes (DO-254, ISO26262, IEC61508), AUTOSAR/OSEK, and protocols from ARINC to ZigBee/SMETS2, making him fluent in both real-time systems and embedded networking. Comfortable across ASIC/FPGA toolchains and UNIX internals, he pairs hands-on technical delivery with formal V&V and tool qualification experience. An uncommon strength is his ability to author platform ports and open-hardware-style processor cores while working inside rigorous certification workflows.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Electronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering at Universidade de CoimbraElectronic Engineering, Electronic Engineering at Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
English, Portuguese, French, Spanish
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Github Skills (40)
spectrum10
zx-spectrum10
hdl10
prototyping7
mmu6
cpu6
linux6
xilinx6
tlb6
vhdl6
caching6
intel-fpga6
sensor5
node-red5
arduino4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alvieboy/ZPUinoSketches
Jul 2011 - Apr 2015
Contributions:20 commits, 2 branches in 3 years 9 months
alvieboy/arduino-serpro
Nov 2009 - Jan 2013
Contributions:109 commits in 3 years 2 months
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