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brucer42

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2026) on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:21PM (#50343944)
Location: Tualatin, Oregon (Portland metro), USA

Remote: Yes, US time zones

Willing to relocate: No. Remote, or onsite anywhere in the Portland metro, Salem, or Vancouver WA

Technologies: Linux kernel, Rust (Rust-for-Linux), C, C++, device drivers, I2C/SMBus, power-supply, Android/AOSP, SoC bring-up, bootloaders, RT Linux, JTAG, Python

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/brucer42/resume

Email: [email protected]

In 2012 I wrote the SMB347 charger driver that is still in mainline Linux (commit ed1a230f, v3.4). This year I ported it to Rust and sent it upstream as an RFC, adding a Rust power_supply class abstraction mainline still doesn't have. The maintainer replied "having Rust bindings for new drivers sounds good to me". Direction approved, not merged. v2 waits on the I2C side moving to the Io traits that landed in 7.3.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260708214738.25008-1-brucer42@...

https://github.com/brucer42/rust-smb347

Before that: Intel (AOSP, tablet bring-up, secure-boot firmware), Cisco (C++ firmware and ASIC HAL generators, Catalyst 4500), ClearEdge Power (embedded Linux for a 5 kW fuel cell), then ten years as a startup CTO.

Looking for kernel, driver, or embedded work, full-time or contract.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2026) on Thursday October 01, 2026 @04:51PM (#49926944)
Location: Tualatin, Oregon (Portland metro), USA

Remote: Yes, US time zones

Willing to relocate: No; remote, or onsite in Hillsboro/Beaverton

Technologies: Linux kernel, Rust (Rust-for-Linux), C, C++, device drivers, I2C/SMBus, power-supply, Android/AOSP, SoC bring-up, bootloaders, RT Linux, JTAG, Python

Résumé/CV: https://github.com/brucer42/resume

Email: [email protected]

In 2012 I wrote the SMB347 charger driver that is still in mainline Linux (commit ed1a230f, v3.4). This year I ported it to Rust and sent it upstream as an RFC, adding a Rust power_supply class abstraction mainline doesn't have yet. The maintainer replied "having Rust bindings for new drivers sounds good to me" -- direction approved, not merged; v2 in progress.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260708214738.25008-1-brucer42@...

https://github.com/brucer42/rust-smb347

Before that: Intel (AOSP, tablet bring-up, secure-boot firmware), Cisco (C++ firmware and ASIC HAL generators, Catalyst 4500), ClearEdge Power (embedded Linux for a 5 kW fuel cell), then ten years as a startup CTO. 30+ years total.

Looking for kernel, driver, or embedded work -- full-time or contract.

Re:Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage on Friday September 18, 2026 @06:25PM (#49761061)
Your French is showing; isolable s.b. isolatable.
Re:Being Ambitious and Being a Dad on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @04:13PM (#49366591)
"work is love made visible" - Kahlil Gibran. Part of a poem you could read.
Re:Microscale Thermite Reaction on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:19PM (#48155581)
Great laugh at end of micro demo video.
Re:A sufficiently detailed spec is code on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:37PM (#47444751)
Motivated to create account by Dyjkstra and Borges quotes. Partially read. Hoping for Chuang Tzu.