Michael Halstead
Systems Operations Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Halstead is a Systems Operations Engineer with 15 years of experience focused on open source, non-profit, and systems administration work; he currently supports the Yocto Project at the Linux Foundation. He blends hands-on build and release engineering with system architecture, notably maintaining and upgrading the uninative toolchain in the widely used OpenEmbedded Core repository to ensure Yocto builds work across multiple glibc versions. Based in Portland, he brings pragmatic operational expertise to complex build systems and cross-distro compatibility challenges. With a background in business from the University of Nevada Reno and a long tenure in sysadmin roles, he pairs operational rigor with an appreciation for ecosystem stewardship and reproducible builds.
15 years of coding experience
BS, Agricultural Business, Business Administration, BS, Agricultural Business, Business Administration at University of Nevada Reno
Github Skills (8)
embedded10
build-system10
yocto-project10
sys10
glibc10
yocto10
x86-647
arm7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/openembedded-core
Feb 2013 - Jan 2023
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:
System Architect / Build & Release Engineer
System Architect / Build & Release EngineerContributions:46 commits, 7 PRs, 11076 pushes in 10 years
Contributions summary:Michael's contributions primarily involve updating and maintaining the `yocto-uninative.inc` file within the OpenEmbedded Core repository. They focused on upgrading the uninative toolchain, adapting it to support different glibc versions, from 2.28 to 2.36. These updates included changes to checksums and URLs, ensuring compatibility and enabling support for new features and fixes in the Yocto Project build system, particularly concerning build machine distro support.
openembedded
halstead/layerindex-web
Oct 2015 - Sep 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 10 years
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