Álvaro Rojas
Aerial Delivery SW Engineer at Airbus Defence and Space
Getafe, Community of Madrid, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolÁlvaro Rojas is an Aerial Delivery Software Engineer with 15 years of experience specializing in safety-critical onboard systems at Airbus Defence and Space. He combines deep embedded Linux and driver expertise—demonstrated by substantial contributions to OpenWrt/LEDE, Realtek and Broadcom Ethernet/Wi‑Fi drivers—with systems engineering training in aircraft integration. At Airbus he focuses on A400M load master cargo software, bringing hardware-level debugging, device-tree and DMA experience to safety‑critical avionics. His open-source work shows a pragmatic, low-level problem solver who improves reliability and performance in constrained environments and bridges firmware, kernel and user-space tooling. He also has a background in EMI/EMC tooling and exploratory mixed-reality prototyping for aerospace, revealing a blend of hands-on electronics, software and creative systems integration. Based in Getafe, Spain, he pairs industrial aerospace rigor with an active role in widely used community projects, making him effective at shipping robust embedded solutions.
15 years of coding experience
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)Master in Professional Development 4.0 (GAIA), BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES, Master in Professional Development 4.0 (GAIA), BUSINESS, MANAGEMENT, MARKETING, AND RELATED SUPPORT SERVICES at Universidad de Alcalá
Spanish, English, French
Github Skills (64)
asynchronous10
c-language10
website-development10
python10
async10
architecture10
patch10
hardware-interface10
computer-architecture10
firmware10
configuration-management10
user-interface10
build-system10
cmake10
c-programming10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
immortalwrt/immortalwrt
Feb 2020 - May 2022
An opensource OpenWrt variant for mainland China users.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:185 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:The user, Álvaro Fernández Rojas, is responsible for developing and maintaining the ethernet driver for the BCM63XX SoCs. Their contributions include adding support for various Realtek RTL812x and RTL8169 PHYs, including RTL8126A rev.b and RTL8125D. Additionally, the user worked on improving the reliability and performance of the ethernet driver by implementing features like enhanced interrupt handling, improved link status detection, and the implementation of a function to set the EEE tx idle timer. The user also addressed various bug fixes for issues related to overcurrent reporting, VLAN tagging, and handling of external switches connected via MDIO.
chinaopenwrtmainland-china
openwrt/openwrt
Nov 2015 - Apr 2025
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:Back-end & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:106 reviews, 162 PRs, 3 pushes in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:The user, likely an embedded systems or back-end engineer, primarily focused on adapting and integrating the DWC (DesignWare Controller) USB 2.0 and PCIe drivers within the Raspberry Pi's Broadcom (BCM) system. They were responsible for implementing device tree support and ensuring proper initialization, including setting up CPU affinities and clock configuration, and also corrected code to address sporadic kernel panics. Their contributions involved working with low-level hardware aspects, like controlling PHY LEDs, and integrating a custom driver.
mergedopenwrtinspull-requestsstaging
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