Michael Opdenacker
Embedded Linux Consultant And Trainer at Root Commit
Orange, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolMichael Opdenacker is an Embedded Linux consultant, trainer and engineer with 26 years of experience building systems, kernel drivers, and Yocto/OpenEmbedded-based workflows. He founded and grew Bootlin into an international consultancy, has delivered 200–300 training sessions and spoken at over 20 conferences, and now consults and trains at Root Commit. His expertise spans boot-time reduction, real-time and power management, and deep Linux kernel device driver work, complemented by long-term documentation stewardship for the Yocto Project. Based in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, he combines hands-on engineering with community-building—encouraging contributions, maintaining major project docs, and translating complex FOSS practices into practical training for industry customers.
26 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer Software and Applied Mathematics, Engineer Software and Applied Mathematics at National School of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics of GrenoblePrep-school for the French engineering schools, Prep-school for the French engineering schools at Lycée du Parc
French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English, German, Dutch
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Github Skills (99)
thunderbird-addon10
restructuredtext10
sieve10
embedded10
thunderbird10
linux10
thunderbird-extension10
elixir10
embedded-linux10
kernel10
filter10
sphinx-extension10
addon10
markdown9
moto9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
bootlin/elixir
Feb 2017 - Apr 2024
The Elixir Cross Referencer
Contributions:1 release, 120 PRs, 277 pushes in 7 years 3 months
elixir
bootlin/kvm-manager
May 2013 - Feb 2019
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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