Josef Holzmayr
Developer Enablement Expert at Northern.tech
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJosef Holzmayr is a Developer Enablement expert and open source community builder based in the Greater Munich area, with a decade-plus of hands-on embedded systems and developer-relations experience across Yocto, OpenEmbedded and Mender.io. He bridges engineering, product and community—creating hardware integrations, authoring tutorials and driving adoption of secure OTA updates for millions of devices—while also serving as Community Manager for the Yocto Project and social face of OpenEmbedded. A regular contributor to the meta-mender Yocto layer, he combines low-level embedded tooling know‑how (C/C++, Yocto, OpenSSL fixes) with charismatic developer advocacy and content creation. Colleagues rely on him not just for integration expertise but for translating real developer needs into product direction and practical, reproducible guides.
6 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt
Github Skills (10)
embedded10
build-system10
yocto-project10
sys10
yocto10
openssl8
u-boot7
git7
raspberry-pi6
linux6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
mendersoftware/meta-mender
Feb 2022 - Jul 2022
Yocto Project meta layer for the Mender client
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:50 reviews, 49 commits, 52 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Josef primarily contributes to the `meta-mender` layer, which is a Yocto Project meta layer for the Mender client. Their work focuses on adapting and integrating the Mender client with various aspects of the Yocto build system. This includes fixing syntax issues, updating license identifiers, modifying build dependencies, and addressing OpenSSL-related compatibility issues. The user also upstreamed and dropped patches related to the Raspberry Pi platform.
mendermeta-layeryocto
TheYoctoJester/TheYoctoJester.github.io
Jun 2020 - Jan 2026
Contributions:58 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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