Writing a new story

LinkedIn posts quickly fade out from view and may not last forever. Here is a copy of my most successful post in 2024.

Last Friday was my last day at Bootlin, the company which I created 20 years ago.

Bootlin is in good hands now, and has become a great contributor to many Open Source projects. I stayed there for three more years after selling it in 2021 to two of its engineers, Thomas Petazzoni and Alexandre Belloni. This was a very good experience to get back to engineering, especially contributing to the Yocto Project, teaching training sessions and sharing experience through speaking at international conferences. Bootlin has also managed to hire incredibly talented engineers over the years. However, working as an employee didn’t leave enough time to explore as many new techniques and resources as I was interested in.

I also want to spend time experimenting with my ideas for making training and learning easier, much more interactive and more fun. An example is avoiding long series of lectures which are hard to digest at once. However, when you already have a portfolio of successful and up-to-date training courses, and are already very busy with projects, how can you justify investing time on a complete revamp?

So, a new journey begins. I’m self-employed again, and I’ll offer training courses on the topics I am most familiar with:
- Embedded Linux Development
- Developing Embedded Linux Systems with OpenEmbedded and the Yocto Project
- Linux Kernel Device Driver Development
- Linux Boot Time Reduction

I obviously need a bit of time to implement my ideas, but if you are already interested in a course in Q4 or in early 2025, don’t hesitate to contact me here.

And what about your own ideas? If you already took a training course around Embedded Linux, what could have made your learning easier? I am interested in your suggestions…