Oleksandr Suvorov
Senior Staff Engineer at Foundries.io
Kyiv, Ukraine
Summary
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Top SchoolOleksandr Suvorov is a Senior Staff Engineer with over 30 years in IT and more than a decade focused on embedded Linux, kernel development, and low-level system design. He blends deep C, assembly, and Python expertise with hands-on experience across U-Boot, Yocto/OE, OP-TEE and mainline Linux kernel contributions, often upstreaming patches and adapting BSPs to new hardware. Currently at Qualcomm and contributing to the prominent meta-freescale Yocto layer, he has a track record accelerating boot times, improving driver stability, and building CI/CD pipelines for embedded projects. His background spans automotive platforms, virtualization (XEN), and high-performance kernel modules for enterprise backup systems, showing both product and performance impact. Beyond engineering, he has led teams, architected SDLC and test-driven workflows, and — less obvious — has balanced active professional work with service in the Armed Forces of Ukraine since 2024.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Systems and Networks, Engineer's degree Computer Systems and Networks at I.I.Mechnykov Odesa National University
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Github Skills (19)
architecture10
firmware10
u-boot10
sys10
arm10
updater10
embedded10
live-update10
architectures10
imx810
build-system9
system-integration9
i2c9
fpga8
documentation8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Freescale/meta-freescale
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Layer containing NXP hardware support metadata
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 27 commits, 53 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Oleksandr primarily contributes to the `meta-freescale` Yocto layer, focused on supporting NXP hardware. Their work involves upgrading various software components such as UUU, U-Boot, firmware-imx, and optee, aligning with the latest NXP BSP releases. They also address bug fixes and incorporate updates, ensuring the integration of various components.
openembedded-layerqoriqyocto-bsphardwaremetadata
MrCry0/u-boot
Aug 2021 - Mar 2024
Foundries.io "Das U-Boot" Source Tree Fork
Contributions:392 pushes, 280 branches in 2 years 7 months
u-bootjavascriptdas
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