Thomas Petazzoni
Co-owner And Chief Executive Officer at Bootlin
Toulouse, Occitania, France
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Top SchoolThomas Petazzoni is an embedded Linux expert and CEO of Bootlin with 26 years of hands-on experience in bootloaders, kernel and driver development, and system integration across ARM, x86, MIPS and more. As co-maintainer and a core contributor to Buildroot—where he has authored thousands of patches—he has helped make embedded Linux build systems more portable and robust, and contributed hundreds of patches to the Linux kernel for ARM support. He combines technical leadership with deep training experience, having delivered roughly 70 embedded Linux and kernel courses worldwide. Known for pragmatic low-level problem solving, he has a track record of stabilizing toolchains and adapting code for modern headers and alternative libc implementations like musl. Based in Toulouse, he leads Bootlin strategically while remaining an active open-source developer and instructor.
26 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering, Engineer's degree Computer Software Engineering at UTBM
French, English
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Github Skills (38)
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architecture10
interrupt-handling10
build-system10
c-programming10
c1110
linux-kernel10
c1710
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device-tree10
low-level-programming10
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Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
bootlin/training-materials
Oct 2014 - Jan 2023
Bootlin embedded Linux and kernel training materials
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 723 commits, 13 PRs in 8 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Thomas contributed a new driver for the Nintendo Wiichuck extension to an i2c bus in the `bootlin/training-materials` repository, which focuses on embedded Linux and kernel training. The driver supports both the Nunchuck and the Classic Controller extensions. The code changes include a new Kconfig file, a Makefile update, and the source code for the wiichuck driver, demonstrating skills in device driver development for embedded systems.
embeddedembedded-linuxkernel
buildroot/buildroot
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Buildroot, making embedded Linux easy. Note that this is not the official repository, but only a mirror. The official Git repository is at https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:143 commits, 51 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's primary contribution was to the low-level code related to handling
memory, strings, and kernel interactions, along with integrating fixes for
various build issues. The user's contributions improved portability and
stability by adapting to changes in the underlying libraries, fixing
compatibility with musl and older compilers, and ensuring compatibility
with modern kernel headers.
buildrootembeddedembedded-linux
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