Brian Swetland
Principal Software Engineer at Tilt Five
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarBrian Swetland is a Principal Software Engineer in Palo Alto with 26 years of experience building low-level systems and shipping embedded and platform software at companies from Be, Inc. and Danger to long tenures at Google and now Tilt Five. He specializes in kernel and SoC work—demonstrated by sustained open-source contributions to projects like the littlekernel embedded RTOS and MSM SoC support where he added CPU options, UART/DCC tooling, and platform drivers. Comfortable in both startup and large-scale engineering cultures, he blends hands-on hardware-near coding with system design and mentoring across teams. Known among peers for pragmatic cleanup and refactoring of complex low-level code, he brings deep institutional knowledge of mobile and IoT platforms that quietly accelerates product delivery.
26 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (31)
uart10
assembly10
knob-control10
architecture10
build-system10
c-programming10
abstraction-layer10
linux-kernel10
c1110
makefile10
c1710
controls10
clock10
rtos10
device-driver10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
littlekernel/lk
May 2014 - Feb 2021
LK embedded kernel
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:83 commits, 11 PRs, 70 pushes in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on low-level embedded systems development within the LK embedded kernel for the "littlekernel/lk" repository, which focuses on operating systems and RTOS. Their contributions involved adding support for specific ARM CPU options like arm1136j-s, and adding dcc "uart" functionality including necessary header files. The user also provided Linux-style readl()/writel() functions, added initial support for the msm7k platform, common msm drivers, and the surf-msm7k target, demonstrating the user's ability to work with different hardware configurations.
kernelbare-metalmicrokernelarmv8cortex-a
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Jun 2006 - Oct 2010
Digispeaker
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the low-level embedded systems aspects of the project, specifically related to the MSM7X01A family of SoCs. They added and modified header and source files associated with the proc_comm protocol, which provides access to clock and power control. Additionally, the user cleaned up and refactored iomap and device definitions, improving the overall system architecture. They also provided support for clock control using the proc_comm interface.
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