Steve Sakoman
CEO at Sakoman Inc.
Philomath, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Sakoman is an experienced executive and embedded systems technologist with 26 years of leadership spanning startups through major public companies, currently running Sakoman Inc. where he consults on embedded Linux, Yocto, kernel and boot firmware work for industries from aerospace to defense. He has led product and engineering teams at Apple, PalmSource, and Be, played a central role in porting Mac OS to Intel and delivering Mac OS X Tiger, and helped take a garage startup through rounds of financing to IPO. A founding member of the Yocto Project Advisory Board and long-term Yocto LTS maintainer, he combines deep hardware design and board bring-up skills with modern reproducible build and DevOps practices. His open-source contributions include build/release fixes and CVE mitigations in the widely used OpenEmbedded core, reflecting a pragmatic focus on secure, reproducible embedded builds. Based in Philomath, Oregon, he pairs executive strategy with hands-on technical problem solving—from SMD rework to boot-time optimization—making him rare among senior leaders for continued low-level engineering involvement.
26 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (11)
configuration-management10
build210
buildsrc10
build-system10
yocto-project10
buildr10
openembedded10
security-hardening9
bash9
script9
python8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/openembedded-core
Jan 2012 - Jan 2023
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
DevOps Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:181 commits in 11 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Steve's primary contributions involved modifying build configurations and scripts within the OpenEmbedded-core repository. Their work focused on addressing build failures, particularly those related to security vulnerabilities and external dependencies. They fixed and added exclusions for known CVEs, updated build tools and configurations to ensure successful builds on various platforms, and implemented automated checks and build reproducibility enhancements. This included adding PACKAGECONFIG options to manage dependencies and avoid accidental linkages.
git-repositoryopenembedded
balister/linux-omap-philip
Dec 2009 - Oct 2011
Contributions:108 commits in 1 year 10 months
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