Thierry Merle
Engineer at Airbus Aircraft
Greater Toulouse Metropolitan Area France
Summary
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Top SchoolThierry Merle is a seasoned computer science engineer with 26 years of experience designing and delivering real-time, safety-critical embedded software for avionics at Airbus. He combines deep expertise in POSIX and RTOS environments with hands-on skills in C/C++, kernel driver work, and tooling from vi to Eclipse, translating high-level specifications into tested, certifiable code. A long-time GNU/Linux advocate and Slackware traditionalist, he contributes to kernel drivers and open-source projects such as Video4Linux improvements and Python-based pyLoad plugins. Known for simplifying complex systems without losing rigor, he serves as a technical reference for UNIX and RTOS matters within multidisciplinary teams. Comfortable across French, English and conversational Spanish, he thrives on collaborative problem solving and international tech exchanges at conferences. An engineer who enjoys “tweaking” hardware, he brings practical curiosity to both low-level device integration and robust system-level design.
26 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree in Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Master’s Degree in Engineering, Artificial Intelligence at Ecole pour les Etudes et la Recherche en Informatique et Electronique (E.E.R.I.E.)
Github Skills (11)
c1710
video4linux10
usb10
device-driver10
download-manager10
c1110
python10
webscraping10
sys9
regular-expression9
embedded9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jonsmirl/mpc5200
Dec 2006 - Jan 2009
Digispeaker
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:41 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Thierry contributed to the `mpc5200` repository by modifying Video4Linux (V4L) device drivers. Their changes focused on integrating `usb_make_path` to report bus information correctly within various video capture drivers, including usbvision, s2255drv, uvcvideo, em28xx, and gspca. These updates ensure the accurate reporting of USB device paths within the V4L2 interface, improving device identification and compatibility. The user's work primarily involved modifying existing driver code to leverage the `usb_make_path` function.
pyload/pyload
Mar 2014 - Nov 2014
The free and open-source Download Manager written in pure Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Thierry primarily contributed to the `OneFichierCom` plugin, a hoster for the pyload download manager, fixing bugs, improving functionality, and updating the plugin's version. They addressed issues related to file downloads, added retry mechanisms, and adapted the plugin to changes in the 1fichier.com website. Additionally, the user made changes to other hoster plugins, such as RapidgatorNet and TurbobitNet, by adjusting settings like the language.
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