Thomas Petazzoni is CTO and embedded Linux engineer at Free Electrons, a world-wide recognized embedded Linux consulting company, making significant contributions to the Linux kernel. At Free Electrons, Thomas leads a team of 8+ engineers all contributing to the Linux kernel, adding hardware support for a large number of platforms.

Thomas has been an active contributor to the Linux kernel for the last 4 years, mainly adding support for the Marvell ARM processors. In addition, Thomas is a core developer of Buildroot, a tool to build embedded Linux systems. Thomas is also a regular speaker at the Embedded Linux Conference and Embedded Linux Conference Europe.