Jens Rehsack
Framework Creator & Technical Evangelist
Kerpen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJens Rehsack is a senior system architect and framework creator with nearly three decades of experience translating business requirements into robust embedded and IoT architectures. A Yocto core contributor and NetBSD committer, he combines deep low-level expertise—kernel, boot firmware and board support work for platforms like NXP/QorIQ and Marvell—with practical CI/CD and platform engineering for distributed teams. He founded the tpo42 methodology to bridge product ownership and architecture, and applies it to regulated industries and inspection systems where compliance and traceability matter. Active in open source (notably contributions to OpenEmbedded/Yocto layers supporting high-performance networking modules), Jens is equally fluent in stakeholder-facing requirements engineering and hands-on firmware troubleshooting. Based in Kerpen, Germany, he is available for system architecture consulting, embedded platform modernization and business-technical translation projects.
24 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University-Entrance Diploma Mathematics and Computer Science, University-Entrance Diploma Mathematics and Computer Science at Georg Cantor Gymnasium Halle/SaaleComputer Science, Computer Science at The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg
English, German
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Github Skills (21)
build-system10
linux-kernel10
yocto10
device-tree10
u-boot10
sys10
embedded10
kernel-module9
firmware9
openembedded9
arm9
imx88
makefile8
perl8
bootloader8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Freescale/meta-freescale-3rdparty
Jun 2020 - Jan 2021
OpenEmbedded/Yocto BSP layer for Freescale's ARM based platforms
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jens's primary contributions involve adding support for SolidRun's LX2160A COM Express Type 7 Module within the Freescale/meta-freescale-3rdparty repository. This support includes modifications to the U-Boot configuration, RCW files, and device tree files. The user integrates features like support for an 8x10G, dual 40G, and dual 100G network interfaces, along with support for an additional SPI flash chip.
platformsyocto-bspfreescaleyocto-layerunicorn
openembedded/openembedded-core
Oct 2015 - Sep 2020
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:44 commits in 5 years
Contributions summary:Jens primarily contributed to the build system and configuration files, addressing issues related to specific hardware components and firmware. Their work involved correcting paths and specifications for building Perl and its modules, and adding support for a Marvell 88W8688 chipset. The user also fixed a race condition within the kernel module compilation and improved error messages in the distutils build process. Additionally, they have modified the kernel module splitting.
git-repositoryopenembedded
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