Matthias Brugger
Team Lead HW Enablement at SUSE
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolMatthias Brugger is a seasoned embedded Linux and Linux kernel engineer with 15 years of experience, now leading HW Enablement at SUSE from his base in Barcelona. He specializes in arm64/armv7 kernel development, hardware-software co-design, VHDL/FPGA and low-level drivers, blending deep kernel expertise with firmware and microcontroller work. At SUSE he progressed from kernel contributor to team lead while continuing hands-on contributions to projects like labgrid, adding power-control drivers and hardware integrations. His background spans research and product roles—from storage I/O research and virtualization to medical FPGA firmware—giving him a rare combination of systems research insight and production-grade embedded engineering. Colleagues rely on him for bridging silicon and software, making complex board bring-up and power management feel routine.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf. (FH), Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf. (FH), Computer Science at Georg-Simon-Ohm-Fachhochschule NürnbergUPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
German, English, Spanish, katalanisch, French
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Github Skills (28)
python10
architecture10
power-management10
device-tree10
u-boot10
sys10
arm10
embedded10
raspberry-pi10
architectures10
automation-framework10
testing9
azure-boards9
bootloader9
c-programming9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
labgrid-project/labgrid
Dec 2019 - May 2020
Embedded systems control library for development, testing and installation
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributes to the `labgrid` project by implementing power control drivers and related resources. They added support for a GEMBIRD SiS-PM power control hub, integrating it with the existing power management framework. Additionally, the user modified existing drivers and resources, demonstrating their involvement in power management and hardware control within the embedded systems context. This work included adding baudrate support for serial ports.
testingcontrol-libraryinstallationtesting-and-developmentembedded-systems
mbgg/crouton
Feb 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:43 pushes, 13 branches in 9 months
chrootchromiumchroot-environmentchrome
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