Roberto Valenzuela
Senior Embedded Software Engineer at Qualcomm
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRoberto Valenzuela is a Senior Embedded Software Engineer with nine years of experience building real-time and embedded Linux systems, currently at Qualcomm after research and teaching work at the University of Waterloo. He combines deep low-level C/C++ expertise in kernel, device drivers, and RTOS environments with practical experience in embedded Linux, Yocto, U-Boot and ARM64 platforms across automotive, connectivity, and industrial domains. His background spans both industry and academia, including cybersecurity for safety-critical systems and hands-on board bring-up and driver development for displays, inverters, and wireless modules. Roberto also brings full-stack problem solving from earlier web and tooling work, and focuses on secure-by-design embedded systems as reflected in his GitHub. Known for bridging research insights with production constraints, he excels at turning complex real-time requirements into robust, auditable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Student Computer Engineering, Exchange Student Computer Engineering at Åbo Akademi UniversityExchange Student English Language Program, Exchange Student English Language Program at Arizona State UniversityBachelor's degree Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electronics Engineering at Institute of Technology of SonoraMaster's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (40)
algorithm10
algorithms10
open-source10
system-design10
coding10
buildroot9
javascript9
yocto9
object-oriented-programming9
linux-kernel9
firmware9
css9
gnu9
cpp9
raspberry-pi8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
roemvaar/roemvaar.github.io
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Personal portfolio to showcase some of my projects
Contributions:12 PRs, 51 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 7 months
reactmy-projectsto-portfoliocssjavascript
roemvaar/computer_science_notes
Mar 2020 - Jul 2026
Computer Science Notes by roemvaar
Contributions:7 PRs, 476 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 4 months
data-structuresalgorithms-and-data-structures
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