Charles Manning
Consultant at Independent consultant
Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolCharles Manning is an embedded systems consultant with over 35 years of hands-on experience spanning 8-bit micros to FPGA-based Linux systems. He is the author and long-term maintainer of the widely deployed YAFFS flash file system, which quietly powers products from consumer devices to aerospace applications. A former Trimble technical lead and Apple consultant, he combines low-level expertise in drivers, RTOS and file systems with recent FPGA/SoC Linux work. Based in Canterbury, New Zealand, he’s been an independent consultant since the late 1980s and brings rare continuity of practical knowledge across decades of embedded platform evolution. An early COBOL-era student who still codes close to the metal, he’s equally at home designing tiny assembly routines or architecting ARM+FPGA systems.
17 years of coding experience
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at University of Cape TownUniversity of South Africa
Github Skills (57)
u-boot9
manjaro8
smartphone8
gps-tracker7
garmin7
kernel6
xiaomi6
gpx6
tablet6
magisk6
nmea6
icarus6
gps6
imaging6
kml6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
m-labs/rtems-yaffs2
Mar 2010 - Sep 2011
Contributions:260 commits in 1 year 6 months
zwhfly/yaffs2
Dec 2011 - Aug 2014
Contributions:116 commits in 2 years 8 months
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