Richard Oliver
Principal Software Engineer at Raspberry Pi
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Oliver is a Principal Software Engineer based in South Cambridgeshire with a focused track record in systems and embedded software across consumer hardware and silicon companies. He has progressed from GPGPU driver engineering at Broadcom through systems roles at Amazon Lab126 and Roku to senior engineering at Rivos and now leads software work at Raspberry Pi. His experience reflects deep familiarity with low-level systems, firmware-adjacent stacks, and performance-critical code for consumer devices. Although relatively early in total years on record, his roles at leading hardware firms indicate rapid advancement into principal-level responsibilities. He holds a Master's in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton and brings an engineer’s attention to both silicon-near challenges and product delivery. Notably, his career path suggests an ability to bridge chip, device, and platform software teams to ship cohesive consumer experiences.
2 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Electronic Engineering, Master's Degree Electronic Engineering at University of Southampton
Github Skills (20)
linux10
libcamera10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
raspberry10
forum10
armv810
raspberry-pi10
usb9
raspberry-pi-os8
raspbian8
sd-card8
python7
raspberry-pi-zero6
ansible5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
roliver-rpi/linux
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Kernel source tree for Raspberry Pi-provided kernel builds. Issues unrelated to the linux kernel should be posted on the community forum at https://forums.raspberrypi.com/
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
roliver-rpi/pi-gen-micro
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
A tool for building minimal Raspberry Pi OS-based operating systems, which do not contain apt or dpkg.
Contributions:4 pushes, 10 branches in 4 months
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