Marc Herbert
Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMarc Herbert is a senior software engineer based in Montreal with 11+ years of experience specializing in embedded systems, OS and network engineering, and test automation. He has driven upstream contributions and product integration at Intel, notably migrating Sound Open Firmware into the Zephyr RTOS and establishing CI and validation pipelines that dramatically reduced regressions. Comfortable across the stack from low-level firmware and kernel work to build systems and release processes, he repeatedly bridges open-source projects and validated products for distributions like Fedora and Ubuntu. His open-source footprint includes quality-focused fixes and testing improvements in high-profile projects such as Sound Open Firmware and Zephyr. A pragmatic problem-solver, he excels at untangling multi-component failures across time zones and communities while improving developer workflows with static analysis and linters. Beyond code, he has led and mentored teams to scale complex backporting and integration efforts, including the large-scale ChromeOS driver backports.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Engineer's degree, Telecommunications Engineering at ISAE-SUPAERO
French, English, German
Github Skills (19)
debugging10
debug10
testing10
zephyr-rtos10
build-system10
cmake10
c1110
software-quality10
c1710
sys10
embedded10
error-handling10
zephyr9
documentation9
automated-tests9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
thesofproject/sof
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Sound Open Firmware
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Embedded Systems Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1772 reviews, 670 commits, 745 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Marc primarily worked on the Sound Open Firmware project, focusing on fixing build errors, particularly related to the X86 architecture. The commits showcase a focus on code quality and the prevention of errors. The contributions include improvements to the testing infrastructure, fixing potential buffer overflows in the mailbox, and adding new features. This suggests a role centered around quality assurance and building the system.
firmwaremidiaudiodspsound
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Jan 2019 - Mar 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:662 reviews, 261 PRs, 1 push in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Marc's contributions primarily involve modifications and improvements to the Zephyr RTOS build system and documentation. Their work includes addressing compiler warnings, fixing documentation errors related to the build process and configuration, and enhancing the rimage signing tool integration. They also made code adjustments to drivers, fixing issues, and added new features such as improved logging and bug fixes.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
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