Welcome to João Marcos Costa and Bastien Curutchet

Welcome on board!We are very happy to welcome to our team João Marcos Costa and Bastien Curutchet.

João joined our team at our Lyon office at the end of November 2023. After a double degree from ENSICAEN in France and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil, João started his professionnal career in Brazil, and then moved to France where he worked for Witekio and Alstom. Thanks to his past experiences, João brings relevant expertise in embedded Linux, and especially Yocto integration. And for João, joining Bootlin is actually come back, as he did one of his internships at Bootlin in 2020, during which he wrote and contributed to upstream U-Boot the support for the SquashFS filesystem.

Bastien joined our team at our Toulouse office at the beginning of January 2024. After graduating from INSA Lyon in 2016, Bastien spent a short time at Texas Instruments and then moved to Scalian, where he has been involved in numerous embedded Linux and Linux kernel projects, but also in VHDL development for FPGAs. Bastien is well-versed in build system management, having overseen the development of custom Linux firmwares based on Yocto, applied to platforms like iMX6 or Zynq Ultrascale+. Bastien will be helping our team handle more Linux kernel and low-level development projects for our customers.

Welcome João and Bastien!

Welcome to Thomas Richard

Welcome on board!Bootlin is really happy to welcome another engineer in its team: Thomas Richard, who joined us on July 3, 2023 (missing a participation to the Embedded Linux Conference Europe by just one week!).

Thomas graduated from INSA Toulouse in 2015, and then started his embedded software engineer career at Kontron, where he worked on numerous aspects of embedded Linux system development:

  • Thomas developed an OpenWRT based embedded Linux OS for railway systems, including virtualization support and security features such as TPM-based secret sealing, Host Intrusion Detection System (HIDS), and Linux Security Modules (LSM)
  • Thomas used both Yocto and Buildroot as build systems to create custom embedded Linux systems, in particular to support VME/VPX boards.
  • Thomas has developed several Linux kernel drivers, for GPIOs, HDLC, UART, watchdog, and more, to address the needs of several Kontron products
  • Thomas has also worked on cyber-security challenges, by creating a streamlined process to merge results from different vulnerability scanners and generate comprehensive reports for customers, to allow them to keep their embedded Linux systems updated in terms of security fixes.

Thomas is joining our team located in Lyon, France, where he will work at our office with Alexandre Belloni, Grégory Clement, Théo Lebrun and Kamel Bouhara, and of course with the rest of our team in Toulouse and remote.

For more details, see Thomas’ page on Bootlin.com or his LinkedIn profile.

Bootlin welcomes Clément Léger in its team

Welcome on board!Since June 1st, we’re happy to have an additional engineer in our team, Clément Léger!

After graduating from ENSIMAG in 2012, Clément spent 9 years working for Kalray, a silicon vendor company based in France, designing and producing an innovative and advanced new multi-core CPU architecture. At Kalray, Clément was in charge of porting a bootloader and the Linux kernel to this new CPU architecture, working on all aspects needed to support the CPU in the arch/ of Linux (syscalls, interrupts, exceptions, MMU, etc.) as well as developing a number of core kernel drivers such as pinctrl, irqchip, remoteproc and spimem.

In our engineering team at Bootlin, Clément will help our customer with bootloader porting, Linux kernel porting, device driver development, integration of complete Linux BSPs and more. He brings an additional significant experience in low-level kernel development and debugging to our team of experts. Clément will be working remotely from Grenoble, in tight connection with our team in Lyon.

See Clément Léger’s page on our site, as well as the rest of our team.