Martin Botka
Middle Embedded Engineer at Ciklum Czech Republic & Slovakia
Bratislava, Region of Bratislava, Slovakia
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Top SchoolMartin Botka is a Middle Embedded Engineer based in Bratislava with a decade of hands-on experience bringing Linux-based hardware to life. He focuses on low-level kernel and driver work—U-Boot, device trees, UFS and input quirks—and has a track record of device bring-up for new phone models and embedded products. Comfortable across debugging hardware, userspace tooling, and production server builds, he blends pragmatic systems administration experience with deep C/Linux kernel know-how. A compulsive tinkerer who describes himself as “not your ordinary C dev,” he contributes to the Sony Xperia kernel tree and often tackles oddball hardware issues that others avoid.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Unfinished bachelors degree, Computer Science, Unfinished bachelors degree, Computer Science at Slovenská technická univerzita v BratislaveHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Stredná odborná škola elektrotechnická Trnava
Github Skills (9)
kernel10
embedded10
device-tree10
device-driver10
sys10
kernel-mode10
ufs9
driver9
i2c8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sonyxperiadev/kernel
May 2020 - Aug 2022
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 94 commits, 30 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Martin's contributions primarily involve modifications to the kernel source code, focusing on low-level hardware interactions and device drivers. They fixed a leftover `#endif` in a redriver configuration file. The user added initial device tree support for a new Xperia phone model (PDX225) and updated the audio lpass configuration. They also imported and fixed several device-specific quirks related to UFS and input device drivers, indicating a focus on device bring-up and hardware support.
Quanticade/Quanticade
Aug 2023 - Apr 2025
A strong UCI compatible chess engine
Contributions:10 releases, 292 PRs, 600 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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