Gratian Crisan
Chief Software Engineer at NI (National Instruments)
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGratian Crisan is a Chief Software Engineer with 14+ years designing and shipping real-time and embedded Linux systems, currently leading maintainership of NI’s PREEMPT_RT kernels for cRIO and PXIe hardware. He has driven NI’s Real-Time OS strategy from hands-on ports of LabVIEW RT to ARM through technical leadership of timed-loop schedulers and embedded desktop features. A regular speaker at Open Source conferences and NI’s representative in the Real-Time Linux Collaborative Project, he bridges vendor products and upstream kernel development. Gratian’s career blends deep low-level expertise—kernel maintenance, real-time tuning, and embedded toolchains—with product-focused delivery, and includes early research that led to multiple patents. Based in Austin, he pairs academic foundations from Technical University of Cluj Napoca with a track record of turning real-time constraints into robust, fielded systems.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science and Automation, Master's degree, Computer Science and Automation at Technical University of Cluj Napoca
Github Skills (27)
linux10
linux-kernel10
yocto-layer10
openembedded10
bitbake9
software-defined-radio9
c-library9
git8
revit-api7
structures7
qbcore-framework7
internals6
tla6
operating-system5
yocto5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gratian/openembedded-core
Aug 2020 - Jun 2026
Contributions:6 pushes, 23 branches in 5 years 10 months
gratian/librtpi
Mar 2019 - Mar 2021
Real-Time Priority Inheritance C Library Wrapper
Contributions:72 commits, 78 pushes, 51 branches in 2 years
c-library
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