Nicolas Dechesne
Senior Director Of Engineering at OpenEmbedded
Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Dechesne is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and scaling Linux systems software and open source ecosystems. Currently Senior Director of Engineering at Qualcomm, he drives open source strategy across Linux kernel, Zephyr, security/boot firmware and distributions while maintaining active stewardship of OpenEmbedded and Yocto Project contributions. He has a rare blend of deep technical work—patches and build-system improvements in BitBake, meta-gstreamer and openembedded-core—and senior leadership, having built multiple Linux engineering teams and served on the Yocto Project board and as its Community Manager. Known for turning complex embedded and multimedia integration challenges into upstreamed solutions, he also trains professionals in OpenEmbedded, Yocto and Git. Based in Nice, France, his background in mobile communications and long tenure with industry players like Linaro, Canonical and Texas Instruments gives him both platform-level insight and practical delivery chops.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree - Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne, Master's degree - Ecole nationale supérieure des Télécommunications de Bretagne at IMT AtlantiqueMaster's degree Mobile communications, Master's degree Mobile communications at EURECOM
English, French
Github Skills (16)
c1710
git10
embedded10
build-system10
restructuredtext10
c1110
sys10
openembedded10
mesa10
build-automation10
sphinx10
documentation10
gstreamer10
python9
kernel-module9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/bitbake
Aug 2013 - Apr 2021
The official bitbake Git is at https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Technical Writer
Back-end Developer & Technical WriterContributions:38 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the documentation and build system of the BitBake project. Their work included refactoring and converting documentation to the Sphinx format, including the creation of a releases page. They also addressed link issues and ensured the proper formatting of various documentation elements. Furthermore, the user made several code-related contributions, specifically optimizing and improving the build process, fixing and expanding the existing code.
hacklangrustlibgit2pull-requestsis-git
openembedded/openembedded-core
Jul 2013 - Apr 2022
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / Automation Engineer
Embedded Systems Engineer / Automation EngineerContributions:62 commits in 8 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the OpenEmbedded Core repository by updating and upgrading various software components related to embedded systems development. This involved updating the build environment for the Git version control system, upgrading graphics-related software such as Mesa and libdrm to newer versions, and adding support for new features. In addition, the user made improvements to the packaging and included necessary firmware for specific hardware platforms.
git-repositoryopenembedded
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