Marius Caldas

Marius Caldas is a highly experienced professional in the field of embedded systems with 35 years of diverse experience across military, medical devices, casino gaming systems, and telecom applications.

His expertise includes debugging hardware using logic analyzers, debuggers, and scopes, managing development teams, tutoring developers in embedded software architecture and Linux, working with multiple processor architectures like x86, ARM, PowerPC, PIC, and 8051, developing in C and C++, including Linux kernel drivers, GUIs, and OOP database programming.

He specializes in hardware interfacing, device drivers, board bring-ups, embedded systems integration, and has vast experience with various I/O Buses like I2C, SPI, MDIO, and PCI.

Marius has a rich history in Unix and Linux development, starting from 1989 in Unix and professionally working with Linux kernel development since 2003.

His strongest skills revolve around embedded system software development and research, Linux kernel customization, Linux device driver design, embedded Linux BSP (Board Support Package) design, and embedded microcontroller software development.

His educational background includes studying Digital Systems and Programmable Systems at Estácio, as well as Digital Systems Engineering at Estacio de Sa University in Rio de Janeiro.

Marius has held key positions in prominent organizations like Ravn, Ciena, Calix, ADVA Optical Networking, Cadillac Jack (now AGS), Bally Technologies, WISCH Systems, SRI Product Development, CM Soluções Informática Ltda, InfoBank - Banco de Informações Ltda, and has also served as an Independent Consultant in Rio de Janeiro.

His earlier roles include Technical Development Manager at CM Soluções Informática Ltda, Technical Development Manager at InfoBank - Banco de Informações Ltda, Hardware Consulting Coordinator at NTS - Núcleo de Tecnologia de Software, Hardware Design Technician at IME - The Brazilian Army Military Institute of Engineering, and Digital Hardware Engineer Trainee at IPqM, the Brazilian Navy Research Institute.