Stephan Linz
Senior Embedded And Open Source Software Engineer at Navimatix GmbH
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolStephan Linz is a Senior Embedded and Open Source Software Engineer with 29 years of experience designing and delivering safety-critical and medical embedded systems, combining an electrical engineering diploma with deep hands-on expertise in 32/64-bit microcontroller platforms. He architects and maintains Yocto Linux and Zephyr-based build/runtime environments, develops cross-platform SDKs, and implements DevOps CI/CD workflows while serving as a certified SCRUM Master and team coach. A long-time contributor to Zephyr, he has enabled Arduino shield compatibility and improved display drivers for NXP MIMXRT boards, showing practical impact in a prominent RTOS project. He excels at bridging hardware-near firmware, device drivers and system integration with product compliance processes for medical and industrial domains. Based in Jena, Germany, he brings rare combined strengths in low-level signal troubleshooting, project leadership and sustainable open-source integration.
29 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Facharbeiter, Energieelektroniker (Betriebstechnik), Facharbeiter, Energieelektroniker (Betriebstechnik) at Staatliches berufsbildendes Schulzentrum Jena, BerufsschuleFachhochschulreife, Technik, Fachhochschulreife, Technik at Staatliches berufsbildendes Schulzentrum Jena, FachoberschuleRealschulabschluss (POS), Schulbildung 10. Klasse, Realschulabschluss (POS), Schulbildung 10. Klasse at Polytechnische OberschuleDipl.-Ing. (FH), Elektrotechnik (Informationstechnoligie), Dipl.-Ing. (FH), Elektrotechnik (Informationstechnoligie) at Ernst-Abbe-Hochschule Jena
German, English
Github Skills (12)
embedded-language10
embedded10
device-tree10
zephyr-rtos10
dts10
microcontroller10
arduino10
dt10
spi9
i2c9
gpio9
driver8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Feb 2019 - Feb 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:39 reviews, 9 PRs, 83 comments in 6 years
Contributions summary:Stephan primarily contributes to board support for the NXP MIMXRT1060-EVK and MIMXRT1010-EVK boards within the Zephyr RTOS project. Their work focuses on enabling Arduino shield compatibility through the addition of support for I2C, SPI, and GPIO interfaces. The contributions include device tree additions and modifications, specifically addressing pin configurations and pull-up options for user interaction. Furthermore, the user implemented bug fixes and optimizations related to the display drivers.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
rexut/kcsystems
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
KC-Systems Build Environment
Contributions:149 pushes in 6 months
build-systemsbuild-environment
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