David Gibson
Software Technical Authority at Leonardo
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDavid Gibson is a Software Technical Authority with over 20 years' experience evolving from compiler engineer to product and architecture leader, now based in Edinburgh. He blends deep C/C++ and embedded systems expertise with product ownership and team leadership, having transformed open-source RTOS and toolchains into commercially viable DSP software platforms. David has partnered directly with automotive OEMs to define software for next-generation processors and represented software requirements inside core processor design teams, ensuring traceability and compliance including EU Cyber Resiliency Act implications. He is skilled at reducing time-to-market through automation, Git branching strategy design, and customer-focused product reviews, and has a track record of building fully automated build/test/validation systems. Notably, his career spans low-level toolchain work (GCC ports and runtime libraries) to strategic product leadership, giving him an uncommon vantage across silicon, software and customer success.
8 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
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Github Skills (37)
electrical-engineering9
manifest8
yocto8
meta-layer8
meta8
infiniband7
git-notes6
iot6
php6
android6
freertos6
event-handling6
git6
canopen5
luks5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
analogdevicesinc/FreeRTOS
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
Analog Devices FreeRTOS repository
Contributions:8 commits, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 8 months
infinibandelectrical-engineeringanalogfreertosiot
wintee/sc5xx_yocto_docker
May 2020 - Dec 2021
Docker image for building ADSP-SC5xx Yocto Linux
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 7 months
adspdocker-imagelinuxdockeryocto
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