A small, U.S.-based professional services and consulting company specializing in embedded Linux development reports that it has hired two well-known open source developers. Pantelis Antoniou, formerly of Intracom, and Tom Rini, previously of MontaVista Software, will join Embedded Alley.

Pantelis Antoniou

Antoniou is based in Athens, Greece, and has “spent the last 10 years working on telecommunication equipment,” according to Embedded Alley. He has experience with TDMA, ISDN, routers, and VoIP CPE products, and most recently helped develop Linux board support packages and voice protocol stacks for VoIP-enabled routers.

Although best-known for contributions to PowerPC 8xx and 82xx kernel trees, Antoniou has also worked with ARM and MIPS architectures, and “dabbles with many other community embedded projects,” the company says. His interests currently include “interfacing Linux properly with micro-computing resources, unifying the embedded bootloader interfaces, and real time Linux extension for supporting O(1) priority inheritance.”

Tom Rini

Tom Rini joins Embedded Alley with a decade of Linux kernel experience, especially within the PowerPC community, and five years experience working with MontaVista's software products, according to the company. He has also worked with ARM, MIPS, and SuperH, and is currently co-maintainer of the KGDB project. His current interests include “Getting a functional kernel debugger into the mainline kernel and unifying the embedded bootloader interfaces.”

Rini stated, “I'm quite excited about being able to apply what I've learned over the last 10 years directly to our customers needs and still be contributing work back into the open source community.”

Embedded Alley CTO Dan Malek stated, “Our momentum in the embedded Linux market is reflected not only in our rapidly growing customer list, but also in our ability to attract some of the best talent from the open source community.”

Embedded Alley previously hired PPC Linux guru Matt Porter, after merging with Motorola PowerPC Linux expert Dan Malek's Embedded Edge company.

 
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