Eugen Hristev
Software Engineer at Lyte
Romania
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolEugen Hristev is an embedded software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience bringing up boards, bootloaders and Linux kernels for ARM SoCs across industries from networking switches to consumer and automotive devices. He has been a steady upstream contributor to the Linux kernel since 2017 and to U-Boot since 2018, and he maintains key Microchip AT91 bootloader trees including at91bootstrap where he improved console diagnostics and SD/MMC performance. His background spans FPGA validation, kernel driver development (ADC, camera, MMC, watchdog, I2C and more), and complex bring-ups for platforms like Rockchip RK3588, Qualcomm SoCs and the Valve Steam Deck. Comfortable at the intersection of low-level firmware and Linux system software, Eugen combines deep hardware knowledge with production-grade software practices and has presented his kernel work at major conferences. Based in Romania, he blends academic AI training with practical embedded systems engineering, a mix that shows in his methodical approach to debugging and performance-focused refactors.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
UPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyHigh School graduate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School graduate High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Colegiul National de Informatica Tudor Vianu
Spanish, English
Github Skills (36)
bootloader10
buildroot10
hardware-interface10
mmc10
memory-management10
c-programming10
c1110
makefile10
integrations10
c1710
microchip10
device-tree10
u-boot10
sys10
system-integration10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
linux4sam/at91bootstrap
May 2018 - Dec 2022
Second level bootloader for Microchip SoC (aka AT91)
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:56 reviews, 300 commits, 37 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Eugen's primary contributions involve the development and modification of the second-level bootloader for Microchip SoC, specifically the AT91 family. Their work includes the implementation of a general-purpose console printing routine (`console_printf`) and the subsequent use of it in various drivers and board-specific initialization code to improve the reporting of errors. They also refactored the SD/MMC driver, adding support for dual data rate (DDR) and ADMA2 for faster data transfers, and fixed bus width testing on eMMC, contributing to more robust system initialization.
rockchiplibcsocsecondbootloader
ehristev/u-boot
Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
"Das U-Boot" Source Tree
Contributions:350 pushes, 19 branches, 72 tags in 2 years 6 months
u-bootdas
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