Ricardo Neri
Linux Engineer at Intel Corporation
Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRicardo Neri is a seasoned Linux engineer with 15+ years of experience driving kernel and platform enablement, currently advancing Intel’s open source efforts from Morrisville, NC. He has contributed to the Linux kernel since v2.6.58 and has deep expertise in x86 platform features, UEFI early-boot, watchdogs, and instruction emulation—having enabled User-Mode Instruction Prevention and expanded the kernel’s x86 emulation library. Ricardo’s background in embedded systems (notably significant contributions to the widely used OpenEmbedded core and OMAP HDMI/ALSA-SoC subsystems) complements his work enabling Linux on new Intel silicon and collaborating with OS vendors. Former Linux UEFI Validation maintainer and long-time open source contributor, he blends low-level systems engineering with cross-organizational productization and validation experience. An early DSP researcher with academic publications, he combines rigorous algorithmic thinking with practical production bring-up and debugging skills.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Electronics and Telecomunnications Engineering, 92, BSc, Electronics and Telecomunnications Engineering, 92 at Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey
English, French, Spanish, German
Github Skills (12)
embedded10
build-system10
sys10
yocto10
u-boot8
linux-kernel8
edk27
boot7
python5
c115
bash5
c175
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/openembedded-core
Mar 2014 - Aug 2019
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:14 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ricardo primarily contributed to the OpenEmbedded core, demonstrating expertise in building and configuring embedded system components. Their work involved upgrading and integrating kexec-tools, creating separate packages, and modifying boot image classes to add volume ID parameters for HDD images. They made changes to the bootimg class, implementing improvements to the ISO image build process, and enhancing the kernel module splitting process. Additionally, the user addressed an OVMF update and generated platform keys.
git-repositoryopenembedded
ricardon/tip
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:653 commits, 118 pushes, 62 branches in 6 years 6 months
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