Radu Rendec
Principal Firmware Engineer at Lumentum Ottawa Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRadu Rendec is a Principal Firmware Engineer with over 25 years in software and 16 years focused on embedded systems, including a decade specializing in embedded Linux and kernel work. He has deep expertise across firmware, bootloaders, device drivers, and board bring-up, driving hardware enablement and long-term maintenance for products at companies like Red Hat and Lumentum. A consistent upstream contributor since 2007, Radu prefers working close to the Linux kernel and platform layers, backporting and submitting fixes that bridge mainline and downstream needs. He combines low-level C craftsmanship with practical collaboration across hardware, FPGA, and firmware teams, and has led complex multi-architecture migrations and product designs. Based in Ottawa, he’s particularly interested in roles with an active upstream presence where he can grow kernel and driver involvement while mentoring others in embedded Linux development. An early programmer with 35+ years of coding experience, he still finds satisfaction in seeing hardware come alive through clean, maintainable code.
16 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyColegiul National Cantemir-Voda
English, French, Romanian
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Github Skills (60)
linux10
init9
system9
systemd9
duktape8
image7
android-open-source7
rdiff-backup7
javascript-engine7
beaglebone-black6
backup6
rsync6
mmap6
php6
sudo6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mindbit/mpl
Mar 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches, 2 tags in 4 years 11 months
mindbit/libjsmisc
Apr 2016 - Jul 2025
Contributions:3 releases, 27 pushes, 5 branches in 9 years 4 months
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