Jan Vermaete
Team Leader Software And Firmware at OIP Sensor Systems
East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Vermaete is a pragmatic engineering leader with 12 years of embedded software and firmware experience and a long track record in FPGA/ASIC design dating back to the early 2000s. As Team Leader Software and Firmware at OIP Sensor Systems he blends hands-on embedded Linux/Yocto development for i.MX and Zynq platforms with systems-level firmware and VHDL expertise for hardened defense and space applications. He has driven tooling and process improvements—advocating Git, Jenkins, automated testing and reproducible Yocto builds—while still contributing to low-level RTL and FPGA projects. Jan also contributes to prominent OpenEmbedded layers (meta-openembedded), maintaining Python package recipes and ensuring reliable builds for monitoring tooling like netdata. Based in East Flanders, Belgium, he pairs deep hardware/firmware craft with practical release engineering skills that keep complex embedded products shipping.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Electronics, Master, Electronics at Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende
Dutch, English
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Github Skills (17)
package-management10
python10
build-system10
openembedded10
fpga6
frequency6
clock6
counter6
unsigned6
xilinx6
yocto6
vhdl6
modelsim6
simulation6
bash5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openembedded/meta-openembedded
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the maintenance and updates of recipes within the `meta-openembedded` repository, specifically related to Python packages and the `netdata` monitoring tool. Their work involved bumping package versions, adding dependencies, fixing build warnings, and adding or modifying testing frameworks (ptest). The contributions focused on ensuring the proper build and integration of these software components within the OpenEmbedded build system.
vermaete/meta-ros
Dec 2024 - Jul 2026
OpenEmbedded Layers for ROS 1 and ROS 2
Contributions:136 pushes, 78 branches in 1 year 6 months
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