Karl Beldan
Micro-entrepreneur at RAKL
Greater Nice Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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SeniorKarl Beldan is a seasoned embedded software engineer and micro-entrepreneur with 26 years of experience delivering low-level, high-impact solutions across semiconductor, consumer electronics, and gateway products. He reliably takes projects from idea to production solo, producing bootloaders, kernel drivers, SoC bring-ups and long-lived fixes that have been marketed as key differentiators by major vendors. His work spans C, Linux, ARM/MIPS assembly, RF and audio subsystems—contributions include ASoC audio codec fixes and u-boot/ethernet accelerations that restored stalled productions and enabled new SoC integrations. Comfortable in urgent, adverse environments, he’s known for short, decisive proofs-of-concept and emergency patches that evolve into maintainable releases across chip generations. Based in the Greater Nice area, he pairs deep hardware-adjacent craftsmanship with an eye for practical longevity and good vibes.
26 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
French, English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
embedded10
sys10
codec10
i2s10
c119
c179
linux-kernel8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jonsmirl/mpc5200
May 2008 - Oct 2010
Digispeaker
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Karl contributed to the Audio System on Chip (ASoC) subsystem, primarily focusing on the SSM2602 and PXA2xx-i2s audio codecs. Their work involved updating supported audio stream formats, fixing issues related to stream management and hardware initialization. The user also addressed suspend/resume functionality and corrected clock management within the PXA2xx-i2s driver.
kbeldan/linux
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
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