Yonatan Schachter
Israel, United States
Summary
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RockstarYifat Schachter is a software developer with nine years of hands-on experience, currently working at Microsoft and based in Israel. She specializes in embedded systems and IoT, demonstrated by substantial contributions to the Zephyr RTOS—adding RP2040/Raspberry Pi Pico support including flash and temperature sensor drivers, a panic handler, and a PIO-based UART driver with samples. A Hebrew University CS alum, she blends low-level firmware expertise with production-grade engineering practices used at a major cloud and software company. Her work shows a knack for bridging SDKs and RTOS expectations, making hardware platforms more accessible to the wider open-source community. Colleagues value her ability to translate board-specific quirks into reusable, upstream drivers that scale across architectures.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
embedded-language10
embedded10
zephyr-rtos10
raspberry-pi-pico10
realtime10
microcontroller10
sys10
rp204010
uart9
iot8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Oct 2020 - Feb 2026
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:317 reviews, 44 PRs, 367 comments in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Yonatan contributed significantly to the Raspberry Pi Pico support within the Zephyr RTOS project. Their work included adding a flash driver and a die temperature sensor driver for the RP2040 SoC, as well as implementing a Zephyr-compatible panic handler for the Pico's SDK drivers. The user also developed a UART driver using PIO and provided a sample demonstrating its usage. These contributions focused on enhancing the Zephyr's capabilities for the RP2040 platform, with a specific focus on the Raspberry Pi Pico.
hardwarertosiotembeddedreal-time
yonsch/zephyr
Nov 2020 - Oct 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 210 pushes, 43 branches in 4 years 11 months
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