Conor Paxton
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Microchip Technology Inc.
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolConor Paxton is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer based in Dublin with six years of hands-on experience building low-level firmware and platform support for multicore RISC-V systems. At Microchip Technology he has driven kernel and hardware enablement work—implementing timer and SMP enhancements, non-zero indexed hart booting, and device tree additions for the Microchip PolarFire SoC. He is an active contributor to the Zephyr RTOS project, adding I2C and UART support and a new I2C driver while improving build/debug tooling like OpenOCD parameters. Conor combines a strong academic grounding (MEng, first-class) with practical systems engineering, bridging silicon details and operating-system integration. Colleagues know him for reliably shipping robust embedded features that make new hardware usable in mainstream open-source RTOSes. A subtle but valuable trait: he frequently tackles the fragile integration points between boot sequence, device trees, and multi-core scheduling where most teams struggle.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology/Technician at Institute of Technology, TallaghtMaster of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1st, Master of Engineering - MEng, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 1st at Technological University Dublin
Github Skills (13)
i2c10
risc-v10
embedded10
device-tree10
rtos10
sys10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
multiprocessor9
smp9
multiprocessing9
bluetooth-le4
bluetooth4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Dec 2021 - Mar 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:88 reviews, 21 PRs, 152 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Conor primarily contributed to the Zephyr RTOS, focusing on RISC-V architecture and hardware support. They implemented timer and SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing) enhancements, adapting the RTOS for multi-core RISC-V systems and non-zero indexed hart booting. The user also added device tree support for the Microchip PolarFire SoC, including the addition of I2C controllers and UARTs, and introduced a new I2C driver for this platform. Additionally, they made improvements to the build process by correcting OpenOCD launch parameters.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
polarfire-soc/zephyr
Mar 2022 - Sep 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:58 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 6 months
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecureinfiniband
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