Pavel Zhukov
Senior IoT Edge Engineer at viso.ai
Brno, Southeast, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPavel Zhukov is a Senior IoT Edge Engineer with 15 years of experience building and maintaining embedded Linux systems, cloud-integrated edge platforms, and CI/CD pipelines across automotive and enterprise environments. He has deep expertise in Yocto/OpenEmbedded, containerization (Docker/Podman), systemd/DBUS integration, and optimizing container size and performance for resource-constrained hardware like ARM and NVIDIA Jetson. Pavel has a strong upstream open-source footprint, contributing build-system and test improvements to flagship projects such as openembedded-core and BitBake to harden builds and prevent runtime issues. At companies from Red Hat to Huawei and viso.ai he has led migrations, defined long-term maintenance strategies, and resolved release-blocking bugs for mission-critical systems. Based in Brno, he combines avionics-trained rigor with hands-on DevOps automation—often improving test coverage and CI pipelines in ways that reduce production incidents.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Avionics Maintenance Technology/Technician, Engineer's degree Avionics Maintenance Technology/Technician at Aviation engineering institute
English, Czech, Russian
Github Skills (15)
git10
systemd10
build-system10
python10
openembedded10
bitbake10
yocto10
test-automation10
testing10
bash9
script9
debian-packaging8
git-submodules8
rpm8
dbus7
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/openembedded-core
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:35 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributes to the OpenEmbedded core repository by modifying and improving build and system configuration scripts. They have introduced enhancements to the build process, including improvements to the way patches are applied and the management of systemd configurations. Additionally, the user has focused on improving the system's integration with tools like systemd and DBUS, ensuring proper operation and addressing potential compatibility issues. The contributions have been focused on resolving build and runtime environment issues.
openembedded
openembedded/bitbake
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
The official bitbake Git is at https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Pavel primarily contributed to enhancing the testing infrastructure of the Bitbake project. They added new tests to cover the functionality of the `BB_FETCH_PREMIRRORONLY` option, specifically focusing on scenarios with local and remote git repositories. They also introduced tests to address cases involving broken mirror tarballs and potential deadlocks related to git submodules, improving the robustness of the project. Their work involved writing tests within the existing testing framework.
bitbake
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