Waldemar Brodkorb
Embedded System Engineer at infodas
Hanau, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolWaldemar Brodkorb is an embedded system engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining Linux-based appliances and toolchains across industry and public sector environments. Based in Hanau, Germany, he has led senior system engineering roles and delivered production-ready embedded Linux solutions at companies like CONET, Thinking Objects, and infodas. A pragmatic hacker of embedded Linux, he contributes to Buildroot workstreams—fixing cross-architecture compilation issues and integrating modern dependencies—demonstrating deep toolchain and portability expertise. His background spans kernel and distro-level integration, automation with Puppet, and virtualized server operations, reflecting a full-spectrum systems mindset. Notably, he blends long-term maintenance discipline with periodic consultancy work, making him adept at stabilizing legacy systems while advancing modern embedded stacks.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences
German, English
Github Skills (11)
embedded10
build-system10
c-programming10
development-tools10
linux-kernel10
sys10
gcc10
toolchain10
mips9
sparc9
arm9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
buildroot/buildroot
Oct 2021 - Oct 2022
Buildroot, making embedded Linux easy. Note that this is not the official repository, but only a mirror. The official Git repository is at https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Waldemar primarily focused on maintaining and improving build processes for the embedded Linux system. The contributions include fixing compilation errors related to specific architectures (SPARC, MIPS, ARM, etc.) and toolchains. The user also updated and integrated new versions of dependencies like libpcap, zlib-ng, and ffmpeg. Additionally, the user worked on general improvements, such as fixing a time64 issue and resolving issues related to code style and compatibility.
buildrootembeddedembedded-linux
wbx-github/uclibc-ng-test
Nov 2016 - Dec 2020
uClibc-ng testsuite (mirror)
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years
uclibc
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