Michal Suchanek
POWER Platform Engineer
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolMichal Suchanek is a POWER Platform Engineer with 20 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Linux-based systems and embedded platforms from Prague. At SUSE he focuses on POWER architecture tooling and bootloader/kernel integration, drawing on deep low-level expertise honed through long-term contributions to projects like Cobbler and rockchip-linux. His background as a systems engineer at Charles University combined with hobbyist “hacker” instincts has produced practical fixes across SPI/MTD drivers, board sys_configs, and Arduino display drivers—often removing legacy cruft and simplifying boot and firmware flows. Michal’s work tends to live where hardware meets software: partition parsers, bootloader refactors, and power/DRAM tuning for Allwinner and Rockchip boards. He’s comfortable across the stack but distinguishes himself by turning obscure embedded problems into maintainable, upstreamed solutions.
20 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bc, Informatics, Bc, Informatics at Charles University in Prague
English, Czech, German, Japanese
Github Skills (39)
bootloader10
c-language10
deploying10
ppc64le10
system-configuration10
python10
cobbler10
interrupt-handling10
server-configuration10
linux10
usb10
c1110
spi10
linux-kernel10
hardware10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
linux-sunxi/sunxi-boards
Oct 2013 - Sep 2014
Repository of sys_config files for different sunxi (A10/A13/...) boards
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Michal Suchanek primarily worked on configuring system configuration files within the `linux-sunxi/sunxi-boards` repository. His contributions involved modifying and updating `.fex` files, which likely contain configurations for various Allwinner (sunxi) based boards related to peripherals, such as LEDs, NAND, and other hardware components. He also updated memory settings, including DRAM parameters and made modifications to power management related settings.
syslinuxa13sunximanual
cobbler/cobbler
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Cobbler is a versatile Linux deployment server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 8 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Michal primarily focused on refactoring and improving the bootloader configuration within the Cobbler deployment server. They unified and streamlined the handling of PowerPC architectures (ppc64, ppc64le, and ppc64el), removing obsolete code related to yaboot. Their contributions included modifying core files, such as those related to tftp generation and ISC DHCP configuration, to support the new bootloader configurations. These changes simplified the configuration process and dropped legacy support.
tftppythondeploymentlinuxdocker
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