Dragoș Tărcatu
Senior Software Engineer at Keysight Technologies
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDragoș Tărcatu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of embedded systems experience, focused on automotive BSP, Linux and Android audio stacks. He has a strong track record bringing up SoC cores and audio subsystems for OEMs like Audi and BMW, enabling DSP libraries on Xtensa HiFi4 and adding A2B support on Samsung ExynosAuto platforms. An active contributor to the Sound Open Firmware project, he focuses on low-level stability, build fixes and logger/tools hardening—work that improves firmware robustness for widely used open-source audio firmware. At Keysight he now applies that low-level expertise to presilicon validation for AI data-center networking, blending hardware bring-up skills with validation for cutting-edge systems. Beyond code, he’s built novel proof-of-concept update and streaming solutions (e.g., hawkBit/swupdate and ALSA-over-TCP) that demonstrate a practical, systems-minded approach to solving complex embedded problems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul Dobrogean "Spiru Haret", TulceaPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyProfessional Certificate, Embedded Systems Engineering, Professional Certificate, Embedded Systems Engineering at University of California, Irvine Division of Continuing Education
Stackoverflow
3,255reputation
130kreached
100answers
4questions
Github Skills (21)
firmware10
c1110
c1710
sys10
embedded10
spinlock9
audio9
build-system8
debug8
debugging8
dspace8
dspic8
pointer6
linux6
malloc6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thesofproject/sof
Feb 2019 - Jan 2020
Sound Open Firmware
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 12 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Dragoș primarily contributes to the Sound Open Firmware (SOF) project by addressing low-level issues and making improvements. Their work includes fixing segmentation faults in the `sof-ctl` tool and enhancing the `sof-logger`'s usage text. Furthermore, the user has fixed build issues related to void pointer arithmetic and undefined functions, and they have optimized code related to spinlock. The contributions suggest a focus on ensuring the stability, buildability, and correctness of the firmware.
firmwaremidiaudiodspsound
dragosht/sof
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
Sound Open Firmware
Contributions:73 pushes, 23 branches in 1 year
midifirmwaresoundaudio
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.