Thomas Rini
VP Of Engineering at Konsulko Group
Wilmington, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolThomas Rini is a veteran engineering leader with 26 years in the Linux and embedded systems space, currently serving as VP of Engineering at Konsulko Group. He was an early PowerPC Linux developer and has driven firmware-to-kernel handoff work, long-term stewardship of the widely used Das U-Boot project, and significant contributions to the OpenEmbedded/Yocto build system. Thomas combines hands-on low-level expertise—fixing image build tooling, packing, and wic/UUID handling—with strategic technical leadership at MontaVista, Mentor Graphics, and Texas Instruments. Based in Wilmington, NC, he is known for bridging firmware, kernel, and build infrastructure reliably across product lifecycles, and for quietly improving developer ergonomics in critical open-source tooling.
26 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
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Github Skills (21)
image10
packaging10
build-system10
yocto10
image-editing10
imager10
image-generation10
image-capture10
openembedded10
perl9
linux9
build-automation9
debian8
bootloader7
u-boot7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/openembedded-core
Feb 2012 - Aug 2022
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:48 commits in 10 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the OpenEmbedded core, focusing on improving the build system and packaging of software. Their work included fixing Perl module locations within the dpkg package and adding required dependencies. The user also worked on correcting and expanding image building functionalities, fixing chaining for various image types such as wic and u-boot, and improving overall image build processes. Furthermore, they made changes to the wic tool, improving fstab handling, and incorporating UUID usage, demonstrating skills in system configuration and image creation.
git-repositoryopenembedded
u-boot/u-boot
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
"Das U-Boot" Source Tree
Contributions:5 commits, 16 PRs, 3508 pushes in 3 months
u-bootdas
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