Andy Gross
Embedded Software Engineer at LINUX KERNEL ORGANIZATION
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarAndy Gross is an Embedded Software Engineer based in Austin, Texas with eight years of hands-on experience building secure firmware and low-level drivers for resource-constrained devices. He contributes to Linux kernel and Zephyr RTOS projects and has notable open-source work on Apache Mynewt core—implementing OTP and flash drivers, secure boot, and serial loader support for the Dialog DA1469x platform. His expertise spans secure firmware update flows, boot integrity, and image tooling, blending systems-level rigor with practical build and deployment automation. Comfortable working across board bring-up to OS integration, he brings a bias for correctness in safety- and security-sensitive embedded systems.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
c1710
firmware10
iot10
embedded10
flash-memory10
c1110
sys10
n10
iot-devkit10
otp10
boot10
spi9
serial-communication9
aes8
cryptography8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/mynewt-core
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
An OS to build, deploy and securely manage billions of devices
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 15 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily focused on low-level embedded system development within the Apache mynewt-core OS. Their contributions include implementing device-specific drivers for the Dialog DA1469x platform, particularly for OTP (One-Time Programmable) memory and flash memory interactions. They also worked on secure boot processes and the serial loading protocol for the DA1469x platform, demonstrating expertise in secure firmware updates and embedded system security. The user also contributed to build scripts and tooling for image generation.
mynewtsecurely
agross-korg/mynewt-newt
Oct 2019 - May 2022
An OS to build, deploy and securely manage billions of devices
Contributions:9 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years 7 months
securely
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