Nabeel Syed

Senior Embedded Linux Consultant | Yocto

Salary / Daily rate

Abu Dhabi - United Arab Emirates

Freelance, open to permanent contract

Can come onsite

Skills

PythonC++LinuxCDockerGitGitHubAnsibleAWS

Languages

English

About me

Intro

Embedded Linux Consultant with 12+ years specializing in custom Linux distributions and ARM board development. Top-rated Upwork contractor with 100% job completion rate, expert in Yocto, kernel development, and IoT solutions. I deliver scalable embedded systems and technical project management for complex hardware integrations.

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Work experience

Contractor - Technical Project Management

UpworkFreelance

Mar 2017 - Present

9 years 8 months

Remote, OR 97458, USA

• Linux Based Embedded Software Development • Customized linux Image building for ARM boards • Linux kernel.botloaders(u-boot) ,device trees,Init system and system level architecture • Yocto and Buildroot experience • QT/QML/C++ GUI app development • Top rated contractor with 100% job completion rate and 5/5 feedbacks from clients. Please check profile https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01560152ba5e47d94a

Linux System Architect (Remote)

Nucleos Inc San Jose USA

Mar 2017 - Aug 2017

6 months

• Linux System Administration, LAMP/LEMP Stack, Docker,Docker-Compose,SQUID ,NGINX • Automation of software image build process using shell scripting. • Building custom linux distributions for embedded devices based on Intel and ARM architectures. • Maintaining software repositories and building software from source. • Configuring core networking features, including wireless networking settings (hostapd, dhcp) etc • Configuring apt-get package repositories, chroot and debootstrap • Architecting solution for asynchronous updating of firmware. • Moving from a compiled distribution to a binary source distribution build (ARM and x86-64) • Building and managing of docker containers using docker-compose and ansible.

Technical Project Manager

Powersoft19

Jun 2012 - May 2015

3 years

•As a lead member of the team I managed embedded software teams which were writing embedded software in C/C++ for portable gas detection devices.My duties included project planning and execution to deliver on-time, high quality software to a large customer base, code reviews and collaborate with senior management to set strategic direction for the company. Led and delivered many successful projects including •AWS (Amazon Web Services ): Linux server administration in AWS environment specially EC2 Linux instances and S3 (Simple storage service ), AWS CLI,Data flow between instance and S3 bucket, code deployment, cloud front and alarms. •AWS IOT: Successfully connected ESP32 (Wi-Fi + BLE) device with AWS IOT which involved collecting data from temperature and humidity sensors ,sending and storing readings in a MYSQL database hosted on Amazon cloud using MQTT protocol.

Embedded Software Engineer

Accedian is now part of Cisco

Feb 2012 - May 2012

4 months

Montreal, QC, Canada

Test Integration Specialist

Trilliant

Aug 2011 - Mar 2012

8 months

Montreal, QC, Canada

Embedded Software Engineer

Aviat Networks

Feb 2007 - Aug 2011

4 years 7 months

Wellington, New Zealand


Education

University of Auckland

Masters

2002 - 2004

2 years 2 months

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