Gustavo Barbieri is a seasoned software leader and founder with 20 years specializing in embedded Linux, open source customization, and bridging company-community relationships. As founder and Director of ProFUSION Embedded Systems, he grew a Brazil-based services firm into a worldwide reference for embedded Linux, serving clients like Samsung, Intel, Nokia and Google. He has held senior technical and management roles at Intel—where he led the Ostro and Soletta IoT efforts—and earlier contributed to research and engineering at Nokia and IBM. A polyglot programmer comfortable in Python, C/C++, Java and Lisp, he builds pragmatic abstractions (e.g., Eagle and Python‑EFL) that simplify GUI and IoT development across diverse platforms. Known for creative problem solving and profitable, product-focused engineering, he combines hands-on architecture with community-first open source stewardship. Based in Sertãozinho, Brazil, he blends entrepreneurial grit with deep systems expertise to deliver secure, deployable embedded solutions.
20 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Contributions:12 reviews, 35 commits, 9 PRs in 6 years
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