Guillermo Amaral
Senior Software Engineer at TWiT LLC
Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico
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Top SchoolGuillermo Amaral is a multidisciplinary senior software engineer with nearly two decades of professional experience focused on embedded and cross-platform C/C++ development. Based in Tijuana, he combines hands-on firmware and application engineering with a deep commitment to open-source, contributing to KDE, PC-BSD and other projects since the late 1990s. He’s also a public-facing advocate for FLOSS as a long-time co-host of FLOSS Weekly, blending technical depth with communication skills that reach a broad developer audience. As a consultant and senior engineer at Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB, he brings practical delivery experience across product, architecture and embedded debugging. Known on GitHub as a “Software Desperado,” he pairs self-taught curiosity with formal software engineering study, making him adept at tackling legacy embedded systems and modern cross-platform challenges.
18 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Software Engineering at Cesun Universidad
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (115)
streaming10
buildroot10
obs10
audio10
ffmpeg10
wxwidgets10
obs-studio10
overlay10
raspberry10
mruby10
broadcast10
keepass9
broadcasting9
recording9
linux9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gamaral/marshmallow_h
Mar 2011 - Jan 2016
The only game engine that tastes better slightly burned!
Contributions:522 commits, 1 push, 3 branches in 4 years 10 months
gamedevgame-developmentopenglmrubyengine
gamaral/rpi-buildroot
Nov 2012 - Jan 2018
Contributions:163 commits, 9 PRs, 35 pushes in 5 years 3 months
raspberry-piraspberryoverlaybuildroottweaks
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