Igor Stoppa
Principal Software Safety Architect at NVIDIA
Vantaa, Finland
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Top SchoolIgor Stoppa is a Principal Software Safety Architect based in Vantaa, Finland, with 11 years of focused experience hardening Linux and Android kernels for safety-critical systems. He currently leads efforts at NVIDIA to improve core integrity of Linux-based critical platforms, after shaping memory-protection and HW/SW architecture work at Huawei. His background spans embedded Linux, firmware and release engineering from roles at Intel and Nokia, giving him deep practical insight into kernel, boot and update chains across arm64 and x86_64. Known for turning low-level security requirements into architected, auditable solutions, he blends C and systems-level engineering with automation and release tooling experience. An engineer who came up through firmware and power-management work, he brings a rare combination of device-level hardware awareness and production-grade Linux safety expertise.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Perito Industriale in Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni Electronics, Perito Industriale in Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni Electronics at I.T.I.S. G.C. Faccio VercelliMSC Electronic, MSC Electronic at Politecnico di Torino
English, Italian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (53)
svn9
chibios9
oscilloscope9
safety-critical9
linux8
testing8
keyboard-shortcuts7
automation7
operating-system7
test-automation7
arm6
refactoring6
arduino6
clang6
gamepad6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Igor-security/linux
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:236 pushes, 17 branches, 172 tags in 10 months
Igor-scratchpad/vim_cfg
May 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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