Stijn Tintel
Elin Pelin, Sofia, Bulgaria
Summary
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RockstarStijn Tintel is an experienced embedded systems and back-end engineer with 13 years focused on high-availability, high-performance web and networking stacks. Based in Elin Pelin, Sofia, he contributes actively to prominent open-source projects like OpenWrt and LEDE, where his work spans driver ports, NAND and Ethernet controller support, bootloader tuning, and device-specific fixes (including WatchGuard and Broadcom devices). He has practical expertise in automated deployment, kernel-level driver adaptation, and making packages compatible with musl libc and diverse hardware platforms. Notably, he has helped bring support for devices like the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and adapted wireless firmware handling for ath10k-ct, reflecting both low-level systems skill and a knack for pragmatic cross-platform integration.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (60)
platformio10
debug10
assembly10
c-language10
system-programming10
patch10
mqtt10
net10
linux10
build-system10
c1110
linux-kernel10
makefile10
networking10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
openwrt/openwrt
Jan 2017 - Mar 2025
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 / Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer / Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:30 reviews, 33 PRs, 2 pushes in 8 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Stijn primarily focused on modifying and integrating code for the
OpenWrt project. Their contributions involved adapting existing code for
various hardware platforms and porting drivers, specifically related to
NAND flash memory controllers, Ethernet interfaces, and bootloader
configuration. The user fixed a number of bugs, corrected boot parameters,
and added support for new devices, including the Raspberry Pi Zero 2.
mergedopenwrtinspull-requestsstaging
openwrt/packages
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
Community maintained packages for OpenWrt. Documentation for submitting pull requests is in CONTRIBUTING.md
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 297 commits, 200 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Stijn primarily contributed to the OpenWrt package repository, adding patches to fix bugs, improve existing packages, and integrate new features. They focused on modifying the strongSwan, keepalived, and ddns-scripts packages, addressing alignment issues, compatibility with musl libc, and updating code to the latest versions. The user also introduced a new package for the domoticz, and readsb.
pull-requestsopenwrtstudio
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