Izhar Mux Mahalalel
Verified Expert in Engineering
Embedded Software Developer
Berlin, Germany
Toptal member since March 9, 2023
Mux is a senior embedded software engineer with 20 years of experience in BSP, Linux kernel, and driver development, as well as in developing control and real-time systems. He has a deep understanding of system design as well as a keen eye for detail. Mux writes in C, Bash, Go, and Python.
Portfolio
Experience
- Linux - 20 years
- Bash - 20 years
- C - 20 years
- Make (formerly Integromat) - 20 years
- Git - 13 years
- Bitbucket - 8 years
- Bamboo - 8 years
- Go - 3 years
Preferred Environment
Linux, Git, Vi, Bash, C, Go
The most amazing...
...project I've Ied is the development of a full BSP for a commercial tablet product based on i.MX6, including drivers for USB, touch screen, wifi, and Bluetooth.
Work Experience
Senior Embedded Software Engineer | Tooling Lead
OpenSynergy
- Led the tooling support team for hypervisor development, developing, installing, and maintaining the tooling environment, as well as qualifying the tools to automotive safety standards.
- Developed multiple tools in Go and Python to assist in developing and testing hypervisor development.
- Wrote and reviewed massive amounts of requirements for the automotive hypervisor, its associated tools, and build environment in accordance with industry standards for automotive safety.
- Developed a fully automated system for CI/CD for hypervisor development, which includes scanning for open pull requests, finding updates, generating test cases, running them, and reporting back to the open pull requests with test reports.
Experience
Kakapo | PR Testing Automation Tool
• Make identical copies of existing workspaces on different computers for pair or group programming.
• Roll back workspaces to known good snapshots for troubleshooting and debugging.
• Create release manifests for testing, archiving, and release creation.
• Improve consistency of the testing regime.
Later additions also included scanning of open PRs on any given Bitbucket project, automatically launching tests on updates to those PRs using Bamboo's commit trigger, and reporting test results back to the PRs as comments using Bitbucket REST API, providing a full-circle automated regression testing system.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering
Beer-Sheva University of the Negev - Beer-Sheva, Israel
Skills
Tools
Git, Make (formerly Integromat), Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira, Polarion
Languages
Bash, C, Go, Python
Platforms
Linux
Frameworks
Robot Framework
Paradigms
REST
Other
Vi, Digital Systems, Electrical Engineering, Signal Analysis, Yocto
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