Summary
Nobuhiro Iwamatsu is a Linux kernel and open-source specialist with 26 years of experience, currently serving as Chief Specialist at Toshiba and a long-term kernel maintainer for the Civil Infrastructure Platform. He maintains the Visconti5 ARM SoC support in the mainline kernel and has deep expertise in device drivers, U-Boot bootloader development, Debian packaging, and Yocto-based userland builds. A Debian Developer and porter for multiple architectures, he also maintains Bluetooth, OpenCV, Mozc and libpng packages, blending low-level kernel work with practical userland tooling. His career includes embedded Linux engineering across Renesas, Hitachi, and commercial Linux distributions, and he’s active in infrastructure-level open source projects designed for super long-term industrial use. An assuring contributor to CAcert.org, he pairs technical stewardship with community trust and a focus on reliability in production embedded systems.
26 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
The information technology course, The information technology course at Polytechnic Collage Kyoto