Roman Leonov
Summary
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RockstarRoman Leonov is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of embedded firmware and hardware experience, currently contributing USB driver work to ESP-IDF at Espressif Systems. He has deep expertise in secure embedded systems, having led security architecture, cryptographic protections, and proprietary secure transport implementations over USB at Aladdin R.D. Roman blends low-level firmware, HAL drivers and secure bootloader design with production-scale deployment experience (production batches of 450K+). His background also includes PCB and antenna design for NFC products and research-grade radioelectronics work, giving him a rare full-stack hardware-to-firmware perspective. Known on GitHub as an "Embedded Guardian Knight," he pairs pragmatic engineering with adversarial thinking—regularly identifying security weaknesses and building virtual emulation systems to decouple testing from hardware.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (31)
git10
usb-hid10
espressif10
mcu10
bluetooth-le10
usb10
microcontroller10
hardware10
zephyr10
midi10
iot10
webusb10
rtos10
usb-drive10
bluetooth10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
roma-jam-lab/git_practice
Oct 2024 - Feb 2026
Contributions:51 PRs, 60 pushes, 52 branches in 1 year 3 months
Kreyl/RadioBoot
May 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:76 commits, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
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