Daniel Baluta
Software Engineer at NXP Semiconductors
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolDaniel Baluta is a software engineer with 16 years of experience based in Bucharest, Romania, specializing in low-level Linux kernel, firmware and embedded systems. At NXP Semiconductors he focuses on SoC bring-up, audio drivers and platform support for i.MX8 variants while contributing upstream to high-profile projects like the mainline Linux kernel, Sound Open Firmware and Zephyr. His open-source work spans device trees, reset controller APIs, DSP run/stall logic, memory-map initialization and new DAI/SDMA drivers, reflecting deep hands-on hardware integration skills. A committed mentor and educator, he has been a Teaching Assistant at University POLITEHNICA and volunteers with The Linux Foundation and ROSEdu, bringing teaching and community stewardship into his engineering practice. Beyond shipping features, he habitually refactors and modernizes legacy firmware to make embedded stacks more maintainable and mainline-ready.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul National "Ionita Asan", CaracalPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (30)
firmware10
embedded-language10
c1110
linux-kernel10
microcontroller10
zephyr10
c1710
audio10
device-tree10
low-level-programming10
rtos10
dts10
device-driver10
sys10
dt10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thesofproject/sof
Jan 2019 - Nov 2022
Sound Open Firmware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1055 reviews, 316 commits, 461 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Daniel's contributions center on modifying and enhancing the "Sound Open Firmware" project, specifically concerning drivers and firmware-related aspects. The user removed unused fields, updated include files, and refactored existing code to align with the project's architecture. Furthermore, the user introduced support for the i.MX8, i.MX8X, and i.MX8M platforms by adding platform driver support and memory map initialization. The user is actively involved in low-level firmware development and porting.
firmwaremidiaudiodspsound
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
May 2021 - Apr 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:333 reviews, 20 PRs, 277 comments in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributes to the Zephyr RTOS project, focusing on embedded systems and hardware-level interactions. Their work includes fixing compiler warnings, updating documentation, and preparing the i.MXRT6xx SOC for AMP support, moving code to organize the M33 core. They add nodes for SAI3, SDMA3, and PDM MICFIL to the DTS files and implement initial support for the NXP SDMA controller. They also introduce a new DAI driver for the NXP MICFIL PDM IP, demonstrating a strong understanding of hardware integration.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
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