Bram Vlerick
Embedded Systems Expert & Co-Founder at Open Pixel Systems
Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolBram Vlerick is an embedded systems expert and co-founder with nine years of hands-on experience delivering Embedded Linux and bare-metal solutions for image, video and audio processing across ARM, x86 and FPGA platforms. He specializes in low-level kernel and driver work, board bring-up, BSPs (Buildroot/Yocto), and replacing proprietary boot components with open-source alternatives like U-Boot SPL. Bram has a track record in avionics and medical displays, reverse-engineering legacy systems, and integrating MCUs and FPGA toolchains (Vivado) into production designs. An active open-source contributor, he improved Zephyr's I2C MCUX driver to support multi-target scenarios and added reference samples, demonstrating practical impact on a widely used RTOS. Based in Kortrijk, Belgium, he combines entrepreneurial instincts (co-founding Open Pixel Systems and AYOTEE) with a habit for rescuing unmaintained hardware and software into modern, maintainable stacks.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at De Nayer Instituut Sint Katelijne WaverMiddelbaar Diploma, Inductriële ICT, Middelbaar Diploma, Inductriële ICT at VTI Kortrijk
English, French, Dutch
Github Skills (10)
c1710
i2c10
embedded-language10
embedded10
zephyr-rtos10
rtos10
c1110
microcontroller10
bluetooth-le3
bluetooth3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Apr 2024 - Feb 2025
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
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 5 PRs, 35 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Bram contributed extensively to the I2C (Inter-Integrated Circuit) driver within the Zephyr RTOS. Their work focused on enhancing the `i2c_mcux_flexcomm` driver, specifically adding multi-target support and related functionality. This included implementing features to manage multiple I2C slave devices, adding helper functions to locate targets, and restructuring data handling within the driver. The user also added samples to demonstrate the I2C target API.
hardwarertosiotembeddedreal-time
OpenPixelSystems/zephyr
May 2022 - May 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:53 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecureinfiniband
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