Matt Redfearn
Staff Software Engineer at Blaize
Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Redfearn is a Staff Software Engineer with over 15 years of embedded systems experience, specialising in embedded Linux, device drivers, real-time software and low-power microcontrollers. He currently architects and leads kernel mode driver and low-level userspace stacks for AI accelerator platforms, shaping both software and hardware feature design to enable system-level capabilities. Comfortable across every software layer—from bootloaders and bare-metal RTOS to kernel subsystems and web-facing applications—he pairs deep C and Python expertise with practical DevOps and automated verification experience. His background includes upstream Linux kernel contributions for architecture hardening (KASLR, separate interrupt stacks) and building CI/validation tooling that executes thousands of boots per change. A chartered engineer with hands-on team delivery and safety-critical development exposure, he champions open source and pragmatically applies Linux where it meets business needs. Based in Leeds, he combines low-level debugging chops with system architecture thinking to bridge silicon, kernel and userspace.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Cybernetics, MEng, Cybernetics at University of ReadingPostgraduate Certificate, Management, Postgraduate Certificate, Management at University of BathHipperholme Grammar School
English, German
Github Skills (13)
debugging10
multiprocessor10
interrupt10
multiprocessing10
interrupt-handling10
embedded10
assembly10
debugprint10
smp10
linux-kernel10
sys10
mips10
memory-management8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MIPS/mips-rproc-example
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
mpredfearn/simple-printf
Jun 2016 - Jun 2019
A simple, BSD licensed, printf implementation for embedded systems.
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years
bsdembeddedprintf
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