Luca Carlon
Senior Embedded Engineer at Multiple open source projects
Padua, Veneto, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Carlon is a Senior Embedded Engineer with 13+ years designing and shipping multimedia-rich software across embedded Linux, mobile and desktop platforms. He pairs deep systems expertise—porting Qt and WebKit to Raspberry Pi, integrating OpenGL/OpenMAX video acceleration, and building Yocto-based firmware—with full‑stack skills in Angular, Node.js and Rust. Luca balances a long-term corporate career with freelance projects and prolific open-source contributions (patches to Qt, Chromium, KDE, LibreOffice) and maintains practical tooling like multiarch Docker images and the pot Raspberry Pi media player. He publishes technical investigations on a self-hosted blog and documents experiments on YouTube, demonstrating a bias for reproducible, low-level engineering. Based in Padua, Italy, he often bridges hardware constraints and modern UI stacks, making him particularly effective at multimedia and cross‑platform performance problems.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Laurea Specialistica Ingegneria Informatica, Laurea Specialistica Ingegneria Informatica at Università degli Studi di PadovaDiploma di Maturità Scientifica Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico, Diploma di Maturità Scientifica Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico at Liceo Scientifico Tecnologico A. Meucci
English, Italian, French
Stackoverflow
9,756reputation
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259answers
77questions
qt
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qml
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Github Skills (200)
ipmi10
bitbake10
gerrit10
yocto10
vnc-client10
backup10
yocto-project10
visual-studio10
docker-container10
backend10
bootloader10
bins10
qt10
rendering10
barcodes10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
carlonluca/cgrc
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:170 pushes, 5 branches, 20 tags in 2 years 8 months
carlonluca/meta-raspberrypi
Mar 2018 - Mar 2025
Yocto BSP layer for the Raspberry Pi boards
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 1 month
raspberry-piraspberryyocto-bspraspberrypiraspberry-pi-boards
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