Jose Luis
Independent R&D at Profesional independiente
Granada, Andalusia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolJose Luis is an independent R&D engineer and self-taught polymath from Granada with nine years of hands-on experience across systems, cryptography, compilers, and OS development. He blends full-stack fluency with deep low-level expertise—contributing to the Limine bootloader by implementing ISO9660 support, improving Makefiles, and refining boot/config loading for diverse environments. Previously a cryptographer at jtsec, he pairs practical security work with research-oriented curiosity. A Computer Science graduate from Universidad de Granada with top honors, he routinely tackles anything from compiler internals to compression and embedded systems. Known for shipping pragmatic low-level fixes that resolve real-world toolchain and boot issues, he thrives on projects that cross the boundary between hardware, firmware, and software. His public portfolio (jlxip.net) reflects a hacker’s drive to learn every layer of the stack.
9 years of coding experience
Grado en Ingeniería, Ingeniería informática, Computación y Sistemas Inteligentes, 8.79, 12 matrículas de honor, Grado en Ingeniería, Ingeniería informática, Computación y Sistemas Inteligentes, 8.79, 12 matrículas de honor at Universidad de Granada
Spanish, English
Github Skills (8)
c119
assembly9
c179
x868
x86-648
uefi7
bootloader6
bios5
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
limine-bootloader/limine
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
Modern, advanced, portable, multiprotocol bootloader and boot manager.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 14 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jose primarily contributes to the bootloader project, focusing on low-level system aspects. Their work includes initializing variables to resolve compiler warnings, making adjustments to the Makefile, and implementing the iso9660 file system. The user's commits also involve code changes to support booting from CD and improvements to the boot process and configuration loading, particularly for different boot environments. This suggests a deep understanding of system boot processes and file system interactions in a bootloader context.
biosbitbakebootloaderarm64ppc64le
the-strife-project/Strife
Jun 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:13 releases, 109 commits, 114 pushes in 3 years 6 months
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