Ulf Magnusson
Kalmar County, Sweden
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Top SchoolUlf Magnusson is a systems-focused C/C++ engineer with 14 years’ experience designing and implementing low-level software—particularly development tools, interpreters, compilers, emulators and translation layers—primarily on Linux. He has shipped integration work for automotive Linux head units at BMW, contributed upstream to the Yocto/OpenEmbedded build system, and implemented shader validation and translation for Opera’s WebGL stack. Comfortable across Python, shell, BitBake and embedded toolchains, he pairs pragmatic system design with careful documentation and cross-team collaboration. Outside of day-to-day projects he builds a low-level NES emulator and maintains an active GitHub and Stack Overflow presence, reflecting a persistent interest in programs about programs.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Linköping University
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
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linux
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Github Skills (18)
build-system10
error-handling10
openembedded10
bitbake9
linux9
yocto8
code-standards7
coding-style7
code-formatting7
65026
readline6
emulation6
kbuild6
malloc6
linux-kernel6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/openembedded-core
Aug 2016 - Oct 2016
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:25 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ulf primarily focused on improving the codebase by replacing `FuncFailed` with `bb.fatal()` in multiple `.bbclass` files. This change aimed to simplify the error handling mechanism within the OpenEmbedded build system. The contributions were centered around the OpenEmbedded build system, specifically related to error management and code style consistency across multiple build classes.
git-repositoryopenembedded
ulfalizer/nesalizer
Sep 2013 - Sep 2016
Contributions:250 commits, 77 pushes in 3 years
emulatornesin-progressemulationnes-emulator
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