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Welcome to Thomas Bonnefille

We’re happy to announce that Thomas Bonnefille has just joined the Bootlin engineering team!

Thomas Bonnefille recently graduated from ENSEEIHT, an engineering school based in Toulouse, France. During his studies, he actively participated to 7Robot, the ENSEEIHT robotics club, thanks to which he got involved in his first embedded Linux project: building a robot that ranked 9 out of a hundred participating teams at the French Robotic Cup.

Following this success, Thomas did his final internship at Bootlin, during which he worked on Buildroot, U-Boot and Linux kernel support and drivers for several RISC-V platforms. During his internship, he also got the chance to following many of the training courses offered by Bootlin.

Thomas is now joining our team as a full-time engineer, to work with our growing team based in Toulouse, to help our customers on numerous embedded Linux projects.

Thomas Bonnefille is also the fourth Thomas to work at Bootlin, after Thomas Petazzoni, Thomas Perrot and Thomas Richard! 🙂

Please see Thomas’s Bootlin page and LinkedIn profile.

Welcome to Antonin Godard

After Mathieu Dubois-Briand and Olivier Benjamin, a third engineer joined this September our team at our Lyon office in France: we’re happy to welcome Antonin Godard.

After graduating from the french Telecom Paris engineering school in 2020, Antonin spent 4 years at Witekio, exclusively dedicated to embedded Linux system development. He has primarily been involved in Yocto-based projects, designing and architecturing BSPs for various customers and maintaining them. He also has experience with secure boot, CI/CD , CVE analysis, OTA updates and automated testing. Antonin also worked for a year in Witekio’s Seattle office, where he pursued his work on Yocto-based projects for American customers.

Over the years, Antonin got to work with Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale and NXP Layerscape SoCs as well as some experience with i.MX and x86 based-SoCs – for which he got bootloaders (U-boot / Grub), the Linux kernel and various open-source software up and running.

As part of his work at Bootlin, Antonin has already been involved in contributing to the Yocto Project documentation, and he will bring his expertise to help our customers on all embedded Linux topics. See Antonin’s profile on our website for more details.

Once again, welcome Antonin!

Bootlin welcomes cybersecurity expert Olivier Benjamin

We’re happy to announce that Olivier Benjamin has recently joined the Bootlin engineering team!

For anyone in the tech industry, and especially the embedded industry, it is clear now that security is one of the most important topics of the recent and coming years both from a technical standpoint and from a regulatory standpoint (with regulations such as the CRA). Bootlin has already been helping its customers improve the security of their embedded Linux products by providing expertise on secure boot, encryption, TPM or maintenance of Linux BSPs.

With the arrival of Olivier in our team, we’re really happy to be significantly strengthening our security expertise. Indeed, Olivier has a very strong and solid security background: he started his career at security R&D firm Quarkslab doing embedded device security assessment, then he worked for several years for the french Ministry of Defense reverse engineering security implementation in embedded devices, searching for vulnerabilities and developing proofs of concept. He then joined AWS at Amazon, going through various security roles including incident response as well as looking into security vulnerabilities of concern for the hypervisor and kernel layers of EC2.

In addition to being a security expert, Olivier is also passionate about Linux and Open Source, matching well Bootlin’s DNA. Most notably, Olivier is a contributor to the UBPorts project, looking specifically at the Pine64 native port.

Check out Olivier’s profile on our website for more details. Once again, welcome Olivier!

Welcome to Mathieu Dubois-Briand

We’re happy to announce that Mathieu Dubois-Briand has just joined the Bootlin engineering team!

Mathieu graduated from the UTBM, Mathieu spend 12 years at Witekio, where he worked first on Android AOSP, and then on many Linux-based Board Support Package, based on Yocto or Buildroot, for various ARM and ARM64 platforms such as the NXP i.MX and TI OMAP families. During this process, he wrote Device Trees and developed Linux kernel drivers for common devices, such as touchscreen controllers, 3-axis accelerometers, and network PHYs.

In addition to development, Mathieu has managed the maintenance of several projects, including CVE analysis and updating software components throughout the product lifecycle. His work has also involved security-related topics, including secure boot, Trusted Execution Environment, and Trusted Applications using OP-TEE, as well as secure communication between devices, primarily employing TLS and DTLS protocols.

Furthermore, Mathieu has some experience with microcontroller development, using real-time operating systems like FreeRTOS and Zephyr on MCUs from the i.MXRT, ESP32, and STM32 families.

Mathieu has joined our engineering team based in Lyon, and will help us offer more embedded Linux expertise to our customers, including some additional expertise on BSP development, maintenance, CVE analysis, and security. As a Bootlin engineer, Mathieu already participated to the Open Source Summit Europe in Vienna, and is directly contributing to the build engineering effort of the upstream Yocto Project.

Please see Mathieu’s Bootlin page and LinkedIn profile.

Welcome to João Marcos Costa and Bastien Curutchet

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

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.