Diego Rondini
Android & Linux Embedded Software Engineer at Kynetics
Padua, Veneto, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolDiego Rondini is an Android and Linux embedded software engineer with 13 years of hands-on experience customizing Android and Yocto/OpenEmbedded Linux for ARM-based devices, primarily NXP i.MX SoCs. Based in Padua, he has worked full-time with Linux since 2002 and brings deep kernel, U-Boot and boot-script expertise demonstrated by contributions to projects like meta-sunxi and openembedded-core. Comfortable across C, Python, Go and shell tooling (and Java for Android), he also improves device lifecycle tools—adding authentication and multi-file handling to SWUpdate integrations. Known for pragmatic engineering and community-driven development, he pairs low-level board bring-up skills with system packaging and release work, often backporting and maintaining LTS kernels for production devices.
13 years of coding experience
Engineering, Computer Engineering, 107/110, Engineering, Computer Engineering, 107/110 at Università degli Studi di Padova
English
Github Skills (25)
bsp10
package-management10
linux10
build-system10
ota10
c1110
linux-kernel10
yocto10
c1710
u-boot10
sys10
embedded10
openembedded10
mmc9
git9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
linux-sunxi/meta-sunxi
Apr 2017 - Dec 2020
Official sunxi OpenEmbedded layer for Allwinner-based boards.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 18 PRs, 32 comments in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily contributed to the OpenEmbedded layer for Allwinner-based boards, focusing on U-Boot and Linux kernel modifications. Their work includes adjusting boot scripts for eMMC boot, adding eMMC support for specific boards (OLinuXino Lime2), and backporting and updating kernel patches. The user also updated the kernel and U-Boot recipes to incorporate the latest stable versions and long-term support releases.
openembedded
openembedded/openembedded-core
Jun 2013 - May 2020
The official Git repository is at https://git.openembedded.org/openembedded-core/.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 7 years
Contributions summary:Diego's contributions primarily involve modifying and enhancing the `openembedded-core` project, which is a build framework for embedded Linux systems. Their work includes creating and integrating initscripts for watchdog packages, updating and packaging xinput-calibrator, and modifying configuration settings for cups. Additionally, the user made changes to improve image types, including adding support for wic.zst, and updating bmap-tools. Their contributions span the build process and package management within an embedded systems environment.
openembedded
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