Roman Leonov
Senior Software Engineer at Espressif Systems
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRoman 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.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist (6 years), Radioelectronic devices, Engineer, Specialist (6 years), Radioelectronic devices, Engineer at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
Russian, English, German
Github Skills (41)
usb-hid10
espressif10
usb10
dfu10
midi10
iot10
webusb10
usb-drive10
bluetooth10
usb-devices10
esp3210
esp-idf10
stlink10
embedded10
cross-platform9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Kreyl/RadioBoot
May 2017 - Dec 2019
Contributions:76 commits, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
roma-jam/rexos
May 2017 - Feb 2025
RExOS - Realtime Exokernel Operating System
Contributions:57 pushes, 9 branches, 12 tags in 7 years 9 months
exokernelrealtimeoperating-systemlinuxoperating
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