Mathieu Poirier
Principal Engineer - Confidential Computing at Linaro
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMathieu Poirier is a Principal Engineer specializing in confidential computing and embedded Linux with 15+ years of experience building secure, high-performance systems across telecommunications, defence, automotive and consumer electronics. Based in Calgary and working at Linaro, he maintains key Rust-vmm components (xen-sys and vhost-device) after recently porting xen-sys to arm64 and adding a vhost-device-rng backend, while also co-maintaining multiple Linux kernel subsystems including coresight, remoteproc and RPMSG. His background spans kernel scheduler work, big.LITTLE optimization, Android platform ports and participation in Common Criteria certification, reflecting deep systems and security expertise. Comfortable at the intersection of upstream open source and product engineering, he combines long-term embedded systems craftsmanship with modern Rust-based virtualization efforts.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc Computer Science, B.Sc Computer Science at Université du Québec en OutaouaisM.Sc Computer Science Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, M.Sc Computer Science Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Université de Montréal
Github Skills (13)
kernel10
low-level10
memory-management10
embedded10
low-level-programming10
c-programming10
system-programming10
linux-kernel10
sys10
architecture9
architectures9
device-tree9
system9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mathieupoirier/xen-sys
May 2022 - Sep 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 4 months
Linaro/perf-opencsd
Sep 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:29 pushes, 34 branches, 756 tags in 2 years 3 months
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