Benoit Parrot
ROM Boot Loader Developer at Texas Instruments
Allen, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBenoit Parrot is a senior embedded software engineer with 13 years at Texas Instruments and over three decades of telecom and real-time systems experience, specializing in ROM boot loaders, pre- and post-silicon validation, and Linux kernel (V4L2) driver development. He has deep hands-on expertise across network processors, VoIP/multimedia systems, TCP/IP, GPRS, and high-availability distributed call servers, bridging low-level firmware and open-source driver work. Benoit is adept at developing for emulation platforms (ASTC/VLAB, Cadence Palladium, RTL) and validating device wake-up boot modes on silicon, a niche blend of pre-silicon verification and post-silicon bring-up. He regularly targets the open-source community with upstream Linux contributions and pairs field-facing application support experience with core platform design. Based in Allen, Texas, he brings pragmatic problem-solving from board bring-up to kernel submission, often translating complex hardware behaviors into reliable, production-ready software.
12 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Université de Sherbrooke
French, English
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Github Skills (72)
beagleboard10
linux10
samsung10
kernel10
raspberry10
manjaro10
samsung-galaxy10
linux-kernel9
distro9
galaxy9
upstream9
zen9
armv89
forum9
rebase9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bparrot/kmsxx
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
KMS++: C++11 library, utilities and python bindings for Linux kernel mode setting
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
kernelcpppythonsettingpython-bindings
jadonk/linux
Jun 2013 - Jul 2021
Contributions:352 commits in 8 years 2 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
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