Rui Salvaterra
Responsável Da Qualidade at Soplacas SA
Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
Summary
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RockstarRui Salvaterra is a quality manager and embedded systems engineer with 11 years of experience, based in Coimbra, Portugal. He blends hands-on kernel and networking work—especially in OpenWrt/LEDE ecosystems—with responsibility for product quality at Soplacas SA. His open-source contributions show deep expertise in Linux kernel patches, device support, driver fixes and build-system compatibility for widely used router firmware projects. Rui’s work often targets low-level networking edge cases (packet mangling, DSCP handling, crypto and 64-bit kernel issues), demonstrating an uncommon fluency across firmware, drivers and packaging. Colleagues know him for pragmatic problem-solving—sometimes fixing the router so the rest of the team can stop apologizing for breaking it.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (39)
scripting10
build-system10
c-programming10
c1110
linux-kernel10
makefile10
networking10
c1710
kernel10
openwrt10
device-tree10
script10
device-driver10
driver10
sys10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
immortalwrt/immortalwrt
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
An opensource OpenWrt variant for mainland China users.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:125 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Rui primarily contributed to low-level networking and system configuration changes within the OpenWrt project. They demonstrated expertise in kernel module development and device tree manipulation, as evidenced by the changes to networking configurations and device initialization code. The user also exhibited skills in build system integration and optimization by updating tools and patching files. Their work primarily centered around improving the core functionality and performance of the OpenWrt firmware.
openwrt
openwrt/openwrt
Nov 2020 - Feb 2026
This repository is a mirror of https://git.openwrt.org/openwrt/openwrt.git It is for reference only and is not active for check-ins. We will continue to accept Pull Requests here. They will be merged via staging trees then into openwrt.git.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:62 reviews, 85 PRs, 420 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rui made several contributions related to improving the OpenWrt kernel, including breaking dependencies between kernel modules, enabling additional crypto API support, and fixing code for 64-bit kernel builds. They also worked on cleaning up features in different targets and subtargets. Further, the user updated firmware components, fixed build issues related to various libraries, and resolved a packet mangling issue.
openwrt
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