Luke Diamand
Software Engineer at Broadcom
Greater Cambridge Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLuke Diamand is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of industry experience and a long track record in embedded systems, kernel and Android camera HAL development across companies like Broadcom and Roku. He blends low-level C and assembler expertise with systems thinking—having worked on ARM9 digital TV platforms, GPU interfacing for Raspberry Pi, and complex Perforce/Git integrations. As a manager and technical lead he’s guided teams delivering libcamera HALs while continuing hands-on contributions to high-profile open-source projects such as the git source tree and Raspberry Pi userland. Known for pragmatic debugging, test automation, and improving developer workflows, he frequently surfaces subtle bugs via failing tests and automated fixes. Based in the Greater Cambridge area with a BA in Engineering from Cambridge, he pairs deep systems craftsmanship with a practical focus on maintainability and developer ergonomics.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BA Engineering, BA Engineering at University of Cambridge
French
Github Skills (16)
c1710
memory-management10
embedded10
automated-tests10
raspberry-pi10
c1110
sys10
python10
multithreading10
perforce10
testing10
pthreads9
warnings9
compiler-errors9
shell9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raspberrypi/userland
Feb 2014 - Oct 2016
Source code for ARM side libraries for interfacing to Raspberry Pi GPU.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Luke's contributions primarily involve low-level system programming and debugging related to the Raspberry Pi's GPU interface. They focused on memory management and thread synchronization, evidenced by their work on cleaning up dummy threads in the vcos library. The user also addressed compiler warnings and deprecated obsolete functions within the codebase. Furthermore, they fixed compiler warnings and added a macro for deprecated functions.
gpuraspberry-piraspberryarm
git/git
Jul 2009 - Sep 2020
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:79 commits in 11 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Luke's contributions center around the `git-p4` tool, specifically focusing on bug fixes, enhancements, and test script improvements. They addressed issues related to file exclusion during synchronization, incorrect instructions in the `--prepare-p4-only` option, and problems with Perforce editor handling and case-folding on the server. Furthermore, the user added failing tests to highlight the existing issues and added features to make testing and interacting with Perforce more efficient.
hacklanggit-clientmercurialfollowlibgit2
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