Damian Hobson-garcia
Sr. Embedded Software Engineer Technical Consultant at Self-employed
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolDamian Hobson-garcia is a senior embedded software engineer and technical consultant with 15 years of experience designing and delivering robust low-level systems for Linux, Android multimedia, and ASIC-related projects. Based in Toronto/Markham, he has led embedded teams at IGEL and now runs his own consultancy, blending hands-on driver development with system architecture and troubleshooting in time-sensitive hardware environments. His background spans PCB memory design, FPGA-based ASIC emulation, and control-theory-informed research from a Master’s at Tokyo Institute of Technology, giving him a rare cross-layer perspective from silicon to application. An active contributor to security-critical open source, he has enhanced OpenSSL’s X.509 and attribute certificate handling—work that reflects both deep protocol knowledge and attention to long-lived, secure infrastructure. Colleagues value his ability to translate complex hardware constraints into maintainable firmware and pragmatic design choices.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
M.Eng, Information Science and Engineering, M.Eng, Information Science and Engineering at Tokyo Institute of TechnologyB.ASc, Computer Engineering, B.ASc, Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
English, Japanese
Github Skills (11)
c1710
mtls10
ssl10
tls1210
c1110
x50910
asn110
tls1310
openssl10
cryptography10
libtls10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
openssl/openssl
May 2021 - Sep 2024
TLS/SSL and crypto library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 4 PRs, 77 comments in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily contributed to the OpenSSL library, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes within the X.509 and attribute certificate modules. Their work included removing unused settings, correcting constant comparisons, and adding support for RFC 5755 attribute certificates and the IETFAttrSyntax type. They also implemented functionalities to manage and print these attribute certificates, along with adding API for signing and verification, and loading attributes from configuration files.
crypto-librarycryptographyssltlscrypto
matsu/libshvio
Jan 2011 - Feb 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 3 years 1 month
renesascolor-conversionscalecontrollingcolor-scale
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