Stefan Schmidt
Technical Lead at Linaro
Hannover-Braunschweig-Göttingen-Wolfsburg Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Schmidt is a technical lead and long-time open source engineer with 26 years of experience building embedded Linux, kernel drivers, and connectivity stacks for IoT and consumer platforms. He has driven projects end-to-end—from upstream kernel and U-Boot contributions to Yocto/OpenEmbedded build systems and CI pipelines—while leading cross-company open source initiatives like Eclipse Oniro. Stefan combines hands-on device work (ARM kernel drivers, DFU flashing, IEEE 802.15.4 / 6LoWPAN, OpenThread/Matter) with organizational leadership at companies such as Samsung, Huawei and Linaro. He has built and grown open source teams, represented stakeholders on governance boards, and regularly presents workshops and talks at conferences. Based in the Hannover-Braunschweig region, he is equally comfortable in deep technical review and in shaping open source strategy to enable company participation. A lesser-known thread through his career is repeated success in bridging Linux and RTOS (Zephyr) worlds to create transparent gateway blueprints for industrial and smart-home use cases.
26 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Informatik, Computer science, Diplom Informatik, Computer science at Technische Universität Braunschweig
German, English
Github Skills (151)
terminal-app10
internet10
bluetooth10
embedded10
wireless10
linux-kernel10
efl10
scalable10
nest10
kernel10
iot10
google10
ipv610
thread10
hardware10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
Stefan-Schmidt/dfu-util
Apr 2010 - Nov 2012
Contributions:82 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 2 years 7 months
dfuutilfirmware
Stefan-Schmidt/efl
May 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:166 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
rustenlightenmenthourlyefl
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