Rodrigo Peixoto
Embedded Software R&D Engineer at Citrinio
Alagoas, Brazil
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Top SchoolRodrigo Peixoto is an embedded software R&D engineer and academic with over a decade of experience building real-time and IoT systems from research labs to commercial products. Based in Alagoas, Brazil, he leads innovation at Centro de Inovação EDGE, co-founded two embedded-systems startups, and advises Citrinio on technology and product strategy. As a Zephyr ZBus maintainer he has improved documentation, added samples and fixed tests in a high-profile RTOS project, demonstrating practical impact on open-source real-time middleware. An assistant professor and doctoral candidate, he blends rigorous research in hard real-time systems with hands-on engineering, mentoring the next generation of embedded practitioners. Notably, his background spans mobile platform development and industry training at BlackBerry, giving him a rare mix of product, systems, and educational experience.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral candidate, Computer Science, Doctoral candidate, Computer Science at CIn - Center for InformaticsBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Universidade Federal de PernambucoMaster's degree, Hard realtime systems testing, Master's degree, Hard realtime systems testing at Universidade Federal de Alagoas
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Github Skills (9)
c1710
embedded-language10
zephyr-rtos10
rtos10
realtime10
c1110
embedded9
bluetooth-le4
bluetooth4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Jan 2018 - Apr 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:294 reviews, 29 PRs, 422 comments in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rodrigo's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the Zephyr RTOS, particularly the ZBus subsystem. They improved the ZBus documentation, addressing clarity and suggested uses. Furthermore, they added new samples, including a confirmed channel sample and a message subscriber sample. Their work included refactoring the benchmarking sample and fixing tests, demonstrating a deep understanding of ZBus's functionality.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
rodrigopex/zephyr
Apr 2018 - Jul 2022
Primary GIT Repository for the Zephyr Project
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
git-repositoryversion-controlzephyr
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