Justin Hibbits
Principal Software Engineer at FreeBSD
Hebron, Kentucky, United States
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Top SchoolJustin Hibbits is a Principal Software Engineer with 21 years of experience specializing in low-level firmware, kernel and operating system development across embedded and large-scale platforms. He has deep expertise in C/C++/Objective-C on ARM and PowerPC architectures and a long track record advancing FreeBSD—porting it to POWER9, Book-E SoCs, and adding tooling like DTrace, LLDB, and PIC/TLS support for PowerPC. His career spans high-impact roles at Juniper/HPE, EMC Isilon, SeaMicro and NetApp, plus embedded product firmware for commercial DSL devices. Justin combines systems-level craftsmanship with practical product delivery, mentoring other committers and enabling cross-build infrastructure such as ppc-bsd-user in QEMU. Based in Hebron, Kentucky, he brings rare cross-domain fluency from kernel drivers to web services and compilers, having repeatedly bridged research-quality OS work with production embedded systems.
21 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
English, German
Github Skills (172)
python10
firmware10
openblas10
embedded10
cpp10
unix10
history10
linux10
compiler10
js10
llvm10
freertos10
blas10
iot10
bsd10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
chmeeedalf/freebsd
Jan 2016 - Jul 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 6 months
srcfreebsd
chmeeedalf/lf-foundation
Oct 2004 - Jun 2014
Contributions:376 commits, 1 comment in 9 years 9 months
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