Felipe Balbi
Principal Software Development Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarFelipe Balbi is a Principal Software Development Engineer with over a decade of deep Linux kernel expertise, specializing in USB subsystems and DesignWare USB3 core drivers. He has led and maintained critical USB frameworks in mainline Linux, authored numerous kernel patches, and built drivers used across ARM (OMAP, Sitara, Allwinner) and x86 platforms. At companies including Microsoft, Intel, and Texas Instruments he combined hands-on driver development with team leadership—previously serving as ScrumMaster, connectivity team lead, and site manager. Felipe’s practical hardware/firmware co-verification experience and history of shipping DesignWare USB3 DRD IP to mainline demonstrate an unusual ability to close the loop between silicon validation and kernel integration. He also contributes to notable open-source tooling, having improved backend versioning logic in projects like bettercap, highlighting his attention to robust, production-ready engineering. Based in Redmond, WA, he brings a rare blend of low-level systems craftsmanship and program-level delivery.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
157reputation
3kreached
4answers
12questions
Github Skills (14)
nethttp10
http10
api10
apidoc10
ruby10
version-control9
firewall8
theorem-proving6
coq-tactic6
combinatorics6
azure-sphere6
computer-science6
coq6
binary-tree6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
evilsocket/bettercap
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
DEPRECATED, bettercap developement moved here: https://github.com/bettercap/bettercap
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Felipe primarily focused on improving the version check mechanism of the BetterCap project, transitioning from GitHub API to RubyGems for version retrieval. They refactored the version checking process, introducing new methods for fetching and handling version information. The user also addressed file access methods in the context of firewall configurations. These changes involve modifying core application logic.
developementbettercap
felipebalbi/vueschool-forum
Jul 2019 - Nov 2020
Vue School Forum Application
Contributions:5 PRs, 85 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
vueforumforum-applicationvuejs
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