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Michael Harvey
Linux Developer
Mike is a senior developer with three decades of experience building software for embedded systems and cloud platforms, including more than 15 years at Intel. He has substantial experience with Linux, C, C++, Python, and Java and has worked with media technologies, networking, eCommerce, and payments. Mike is an experienced technical lead.

Element Green
Linux Developer
Element has 35+ years of software development experience, including Linux and embedded systems and website, Android, and graphical user interface (GUI) development. He specializes in D, C, C++, and Python and possesses various other technical and creative skills, including SQL, VHDL on FPGAs, schematic capture, PCB layout, Django, and 3D CAD. Element is self-motivated, enjoys learning new tech, has exemplary communication skills, and prides himself on delivering quality work.

Chris Kottaridis
Linux Developer
Chris has 25 years of experience in Linux environments. Most of those years were spent in operating system development, such as writing device drivers and embedded Linux systems. His most recent tasks have been in the cloud computing world, where he was on IBM Cloud's core development team. He's currently interested in both Linux and FreeRTOS-based embedded systems.

Ming Rutar
Linux Developer
Ming is an experienced software and DevOps engineer with almost two decades of experience in various industries. She is proficient with Python, TypeScript, shell scripting, Terraform, Java, C++, C, C# languages, and Linux and Windows operating system. Ming has hands-on experience with AWS programming, cloud management, network configuration and management, Docker and Docker Compose creation, CI/CD pipelines automation, TensorFlow, HMMLearn, Jupyter Notebook, Matplotlib, Pandas, and NumPy.

Charlie Hileman
Linux Developer
Charlie is a full-stack engineer with extensive back-end experience and a scientific background, having recently worked in medical technologies. He's proficient in cloud services such as AWS, in addition to Linux, Docker, and DevOps. Charlie possesses exemplary communication skills and excels at working with both technical and non-technical teams.

Mirosław Opoka
Linux Developer
Miroslaw is a software engineer with 20+ years of experience translating business dreams into actionable plans, robust architectures, and maintainable products. He specializes in object-oriented solutions for Linux and embedded systems with C, C++, and Python for industrial applications where reliability and safety are critical. Miroslaw fosters open communication to ensure the business logic is well understood, the code is clean and readable, and the final product is future-proof.

Louis Rubet
Linux Developer
Louis is an embedded systems architect and a C and C++ expert. He has mainly worked on IoT projects under Linux and low-level and time-critical high-integrity projects for IoT, defense, and railway industries. As a smart building startupper, he has gained four years of experience in team building, engineering, and workflow management.

Jan Kratochvíl
Linux Developer
Jan is a back-end developer with 20+ years of experience, specializing in server-side code in C++11 (and higher) and previously in building C++ debuggers and Linux dev tools. He is an expert in DWARF debugging format and has been fixing large codebases such as LLDB and GDB debuggers. Jan's experience spans Interactive Brokers C++ API; disassembling and reverse engineering; and troubleshooting, programming, and configuring networks, embedded devices, Linux servers, RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora.

Aleksander Korzynski
Linux Developer
Aleksander is a veteran Linux engineer who helps organizations achieve strategic software delivery goals, such as agility, reliability, and security. As a Toptal/Google contractor, he designed a CD pipeline supporting almost 1,000 developers. At the University of Cambridge, he tuned the performance of applications in a >£1 million Linux HPC cluster. Aleksander can configure the cloud, CI/CD, and release automation.

Denis Makarov
Linux Developer
Denis is an embedded system developer with 10+ years of experience in designing, developing, and maintaining complex software and hardware systems. He holds a PhD in electronics and has professional expertise in C, C++, STL, Qt, Linux, and FreeRTOS. Along with solid experience in embedded systems, information security, cryptography, and networks, Denis is enthusiastic about developing high-load real-time systems for his clients.

Neil Gulati
Linux Developer
Neil has over 25 years of experience in network and application programming, recently focusing on Python REST APIs using DRF, Redis, RabbitMQ, Apache Pulsar, and CouchDB. He also has solid expertise in JavaScript, C, C++, PHP, Perl, CSS, and HTML. He has pushed the Django object-relational mapper to the limit and has used Postgres, MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, and IBM DB2. Neil thrives in the Linux CLI environment using Vim, Tmux, and Bash and embraces the DevOps revolution and Kubernetes.

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