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Akif Ejaz

@akifejaz

Embedded software engineer, 4+ yrs on RISC-V: firmware, drivers, BSPs, RTOS, seL4 and Linux kernel. ThreadX committer, seL4 maintainer.

Pakistan

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What I'm looking for

Embedded, firmware, Linux kernel and systems software roles on RISC-V or other silicon. Open to remote work or relocation to Europe, the UK, Canada or Australia, with visa sponsorship.

At 10xEngineers, I’m advancing RISC-V support for Eclipse ThreadX with the Eclipse Foundation, including interrupt handling, context switching, and synchronization for RV64 and RV32. I also maintain Cloud-V, where CI automation and observability support RISC-V board testing.

I enabled seL4 on SpacemiT’s BananaPi BPI-F3 RISC-V board, implementing kernel initialization and UART, clock, timer, and PLIC drivers. I debugged the port over JTAG and serial console, and validated it with the full seL4 test suite.

At Xcelerium Inc., I developed RISC-V board support for FreeRTOS and Zephyr and led the project to boot Linux Kernel v6.10 on the Hydra VP simulator and Hydra Tile SU. I’m also an Eclipse ThreadX committer, seL4 maintainer, and upstream Linux kernel contributor.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Sr. Engineer

Current

10xEngineers

Mar 2025 - Present (1 year 8 months)

Leading strategic collaboration with the Eclipse Foundation to architect and scale RISC-V support for the ThreadX RTOS. Enabled seL4 microkernel support for SpacemiT's BananaPi BPI-F3 RISC-V board and leading maintenance of Cloud-V CI services platform.

RISC V ThreadX SeL4 UART PLIC JTAG Jenkins Gitlab CI GitHub Actions Ansible Prometheus Grafana LAVA KernelCI SPEC CoreMark Phoronix

Software Engineer - II

Xcelerium Inc.

Mar 2023 - Feb 2025 (1 year 11 months)

Developed custom board support package for Xcelerium's RISC-V64 core in FreeRTOS and Zephyr RTOS. Led the Linux Boot project to boot Linux Kernel v6.10 on the RISC-V SW simulator and Scalar Core.

FreeRTOS Zephyr RISC V Linux Kernel SPI Pytest AWS FPGA C Python

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

The Linux Foundation

LFD114: Porting Software to RISC-V, RISC-V

2026 - 2026

Completed LFD114: Porting Software to RISC-V, covering RISC-V assembly language, system integration, and vector intrinsics.

The Linux Foundation

LFD123: Open Source RT-Thread RTOS on RISC-V, RISC-V

2025 - 2025

Completed LFD123: Open Source RT-Thread RTOS on RISC-V, covering RISC-V architecture, embedded systems development, and multi-thread programming.

The Linux Foundation

LFD103: A Beginner's Guide to Linux Kernel Development, Linux Kernel Development

2025 - 2025

Completed LFD103: A Beginner's Guide to Linux Kernel Development, covering Linux kernel development, Git, commit logs, and Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct.