Richard Oliver
Principal Software Engineer at Raspberry Pi
South Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRichard Oliver is a Principal Software Engineer based in South Cambridgeshire with a focused track record in systems and embedded software across consumer hardware and silicon companies. He has progressed from GPGPU driver engineering at Broadcom through systems roles at Amazon Lab126 and Roku to senior engineering at Rivos and now leads software work at Raspberry Pi. His experience reflects deep familiarity with low-level systems, firmware-adjacent stacks, and performance-critical code for consumer devices. Although relatively early in total years on record, his roles at leading hardware firms indicate rapid advancement into principal-level responsibilities. He holds a Master's in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton and brings an engineer’s attention to both silicon-near challenges and product delivery. Notably, his career path suggests an ability to bridge chip, device, and platform software teams to ship cohesive consumer experiences.
2 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Electronic Engineering, Master's Degree Electronic Engineering at University of Southampton
Github Skills (33)
raspberry-pi-pico10
provisioning10
linux-kernel10
libcamera10
kernel10
raspberry-pi-camera10
raspberry-pi10
asciidoc9
python9
usb9
raspberry-pi-os8
operating-system8
documentation8
dpkg8
microcontroller7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
roliver-rpi/linux
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Kernel source tree for Raspberry Pi-provided kernel builds. Issues unrelated to the linux kernel should be posted on the community forum at https://forums.raspberrypi.com/
Contributions:5 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
roliver-rpi/raspi-config
Nov 2024 - Aug 2025
Configuration tool for the Raspberry Pi
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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