Robert Yang
Software Architect at Wind River
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Yang is a Software Architect with 15 years' experience specializing in Embedded Linux, Yocto build systems, and cross-platform portability. As a long-time Wind River engineer and maintainer of Yocto dora and jethro branches, he combines deep kernel and build-system know-how with practical debugging and C/Python development skills. His open-source work includes substantive contributions to core projects like e2fsprogs, BitBake and OpenEmbedded—fixing build, dependency and filesystem edge cases that improve portability across architectures including MIPS64 N32. Based in Chaoyang District, Beijing, he brings a pragmatic engineering style informed by hands-on fixes to complex build chains and low-level utilities, often solving problems others surface but don’t root-cause.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Beijing Jiaotong University
Github Skills (29)
filesystem10
python10
bitbake10
build-system10
c1110
makefile10
c1710
wxwidgets10
automation10
automations10
devops10
openembedded10
scripting9
crossbuild9
debug9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/openembedded-core
May 2011 - May 2022
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1362 commits in 11 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the OpenEmbedded-core project by fixing build issues, particularly related to dependencies and compiler warnings. Their work involved modifying configuration files and build scripts to resolve compilation errors on various platforms, including those with older GCC versions or specific hardware architectures. The user also added patches to correctly handle MIPS64 N32 architectures and to enable features like building with shared objects, ensuring the project's portability and build compatibility.
git-repositoryopenembedded
openembedded/bitbake
Jun 2011 - Nov 2022
The official bitbake Git is at https://git.openembedded.org/bitbake/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:126 commits in 11 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Robert contributed to enhancing the BitBake build system by adding support for task-specific stamp files, which enabled the sharing of source code between recipes using separate build directories. They also refactored the codebase by removing unused global variables and replacing `os.system` and `os.popen` with more modern and robust alternatives. Furthermore, the user implemented a disk space monitoring system to prevent build failures due to disk space exhaustion and improved the build system by integrating Python library updates.
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