Welcome to Paul Louvel and Diogo Ivo

We recently welcomed two engineers in our team located in Toulouse, France: Paul Louvel and Diogo Ivo.

Paul Louvel

Paul LouvelPaul joined Bootlin in February 2026, after graduating from École 42, with a combined apprenticeship at IDEMIA on SIM card technology projects, implementing the (D)TLS protocol in a smart card operating system. At Bootlin, Paul already contributed to the development and customization of Linux BSPs targeting x86-based Intel platforms, PowerPC, and ARM-based NXP platforms, using both Yocto and Buildroot. Paul is also contributing to the Linux kernel, developing and making changes to various drivers using different subsystems, including GPIO, IRQ, and crypto.

Check out Paul’s page on bootlin.com, LinkedIn profile and Linux kernel commits.

Diogo Ivo

Diogo IvoDiogo joined Bootlin at the beginning of June 2026. Diogo graduated with a Master’s Degree in Engineering Physics from Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal) in 2022. From 2023 to 2026, he worked at Siemens as an Embedded Linux engineer, working with edge industrial platforms and gaining experience in Yocto integration, platform maintenance and BSP kernel updates. He also contributed to the upstream Linux kernel, namely an Ethernet driver for the Texas Instruments AM654x SR1.0 SoC and a watchdog driver for the Intel Over-Clocking watchdog.

Check out Diogo’s page on bootlin.com, LinkedIn profile and Linux kernel commits.

We’re happy to see two young and talented engineers join our team to work on the numerous embedded Linux projects from our customers!

Thomas Petazzoni

Author: Thomas Petazzoni

Thomas Petazzoni is Bootlin's co-owner and CEO. Thomas joined Bootlin in 2008 as a kernel and embedded Linux engineer, became CTO in 2013, and co-owner/CEO in 2021. More details...

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