Koen Kooi
Senior Staff Engineer at Qualcomm
Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKoen Kooi is a Senior Staff Engineer with 26 years of experience building and maintaining embedded Linux ecosystems, currently at Qualcomm and a long-time core developer of OpenEmbedded and the Ångström distribution. He combines deep build-system and release expertise—especially in cross-compilation, dependency management and DevOps for openembedded-core—with hands-on kernel, device tree and driver work for platforms like Allwinner (meta-sunxi). His contributions to prominent projects such as OctoPrint and openembedded demonstrate a knack for pragmatic fixes that improve reproducibility and multimedia features alike. Known for steering releases at organizations like Linaro and managing distribution at SoftIron, he blends technical stewardship with operational rigor. Based in Utrecht, he brings a rare mix of low-level embedded knowledge and large-scale release management, honed since the early BeagleBoard era.
26 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Propadeuse, Electrical Engineering, Propadeuse, Electrical Engineering at Universiteit TwenteVeluws College
Github Skills (24)
octoprint10
back-end-development10
crossbuild10
package-management10
python10
build-system10
ffmpeg10
linux-kernel10
yocto10
sys10
embedded10
cross-compiling10
openembedded10
architecture9
bash9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ebutera/meta-sunxi
Apr 2013 - Sep 2016
See https://github.com/linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:33 commits in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Koen primarily contributes to the `meta-sunxi` repository, which focuses on embedded systems. Their commits involve fixing versioning and cleaning up recipe files for various components, specifically targeting the Allwinner processor. They also updated the Linux kernel to newer versions and made updates to the device tree. Furthermore, they are responsible for changes to Mali drivers.
linux
openembedded/openembedded-core
Feb 2011 - Apr 2018
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:241 commits in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Koen primarily contributed to the build system and configuration files within the OpenEmbedded project. Their work includes fixing build errors related to dependencies, especially involving the build process for native tools and cross-compilation. They addressed issues with package dependencies, the build environment, and integrating necessary components. The contributions focused on ensuring the build process functions correctly across different architectures and environments, and enabling various features like PM and RT tests.
openembedded
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