Carl Van Schaik
Director, Engineering at Qualcomm
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolCarl Van Schaik is a seasoned engineering leader and software architect with 11+ years of hands-on experience building secure embedded, mobile, and virtualization platforms. Currently Director of Engineering at Qualcomm, he has deep expertise across ARM and other CPU architectures, hypervisors, microkernels (L4/OKL4), and porting OSes for multi-core and safety-critical systems. He founded Cog Systems and served as CTO, delivering commercially deployed secure mobility and IoT solutions for demanding government and enterprise customers. Carl’s background spans firmware and bootloaders through system software and device drivers, with a rare combination of research roots (UNSW, NICTA) and product delivery at scale. Known for pragmatic innovation, he frequently bridges academic microkernel advances with practical commercial hypervisor deployments. Based in Sydney, he pairs technical depth in virtualization and secure computing with executive leadership in large engineering organizations.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, M.Sc. Electrical Engineering at University of Cape Town
Github Skills (10)
kernel10
mobile9
python5
linux5
windows5
macos4
redmine4
tftp4
ruby2
driver1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CogSystems/u-boot
Jun 2015 - Feb 2019
"Das U-Boot" Source Tree
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 push, 2 branches in 3 years 8 months
u-bootdas
CogSystems/fastboot--android-core
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
fastbootlinuxstandalonepurposegeneral-purpose
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