Parthiban N
Founder And Director Of Engineering at Linumiz Private Limited
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolParthiban N is a founder and Director of Engineering with over 14 years of embedded systems experience, currently leading Linumiz to deliver board bring-up, BSPs, device drivers and OTA solutions across U-Boot, Linux and Zephyr for ARM and other architectures. He pairs hands-on low-level engineering—having contributed fixes and refactors to the widely used Zephyr RTOS—with product-level delivery for custom platforms and Yocto/Buildroot-based flows. His career spans work on NXP, TI and PowerPC platforms, optimizing CAN, GSM and QSPI subsystems and integrating kernel and bootloader updates into CI-driven builds. An active open-source contributor and speaker, he regularly shares practical insights on update solutions and kernel upgrades that bridge community development and commercial needs. Based in Berlin, he brings a rare combination of board-level debugging chops and entrepreneurial leadership that helps companies accelerate time-to-market for embedded products.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering at Thiagarajar College of Engineering
English, Tamil, German
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2,210reputation
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84answers
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Github Skills (23)
embedded-language10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
rtos10
build-configuration9
c119
build-system9
bluetooth9
project-configuration9
modbus9
c179
gsm9
iot8
bluez6
versioning6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Apr 2019 - Dec 2024
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:127 reviews, 39 PRs, 317 comments in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Parthiban primarily contributes to the Zephyr RTOS, focusing on embedded systems and device driver improvements. They addressed issues with the Modbus client, fixing RSSI range in the GSM modem driver, and correcting QSPI settings on the RAK5010 board. Additionally, the user refactored the sample project structure, moving the LZ4 compression sample into the module directory and updating the west manifest instructions. This demonstrates a strong understanding of embedded systems, device drivers, and build system configuration.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
linumiz/zephyr
May 2020 - Oct 2022
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Contributions:19 reviews, 61 commits, 18 PRs in 2 years 5 months
architecturesscalablegit-repositorysecuresoftware-defined-radio
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