Santiago Hormazabal
Embedded Software Engineer at SimpliSafe
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Summary
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Top SchoolSantiago Hormazabal is an Embedded Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building real-time firmware, embedded Linux systems, and IoT integrations for home automation. He currently develops embedded products at SimpliSafe and Cocus Devices, with a background contracting for iRobot and designing hardware and desktop tools for city-scale systems. A strong C/C++ systems programmer, he contributes to the ELKS project—bringing Linux to 8086-class hardware—where he implements low-level drivers and resource-constrained I/O features. Santiago pairs firmware and circuit design skills with casual reverse-engineering curiosity and a passion for vintage CPUs and electronics, evidenced by his active open-source work. Based in Rosario, Argentina, he holds an engineering degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and even maintains an amateur radio callsign (LU9FSH), reflecting hands-on, hardware-centric problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineer's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Rosario
English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
c1710
kernel10
emu808610
timers10
interrupt10
embedded10
interrupt-handling10
timer10
time-management10
serial-communication10
c1110
sys10
kernel-mode10
gpio7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ghaerr/elks
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 15 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Santiago primarily contributes to the ELKS project, an embeddable Linux kernel for 8086 processors. Their work focuses on adding and improving low-level drivers and features for the 8018x platform. This includes implementing timer and interrupt handling, serial console support, an SD card driver, and extending the BASIC interpreter with hardware I/O functions. They demonstrate a strong focus on hardware interaction and system-level programming within a resource-constrained environment.
kernel8086linuxsubsetembedded-linux
cocus/openwrt
Apr 2024 - Oct 2024
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.
Contributions:49 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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