leonardo salvatore
BeeGroove AB — Senior Embedded Contractor
Malmö, Sweden
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Summary
Strategic technical leader with 20 years of experience delivering high-impact solutions across consumer electronics, industrial, IoT sectors. Expert in the full embedded lifecycle — from hardware-level drivers to cloud-integrated applications. Deeply specialized in AOSP (Android Open Source Project), Yocto/Linux, and FreeRTOS (including AWS IoT). Helps customers bring products into compliance with the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Working on integrating AI — both cloud and local — into existing workflows and solutions. Proven track record of leading agile teams to build robust, scalable OS layers and custom hardware platforms, whether on-site in the lab or leading remotely.
Open-source contributor to GStreamer and LVGL, with a focus on video processing and streaming:
Skills
Silicon & platforms:
Languages: Italian (native) · English (professional working proficiency)
Experience
Everything listed here is no longer covered by an NDA — happy to show details or talk shop about any of it.
Embedded Linux and Android developer at Trimble Sweden AB, and for other customers on FreeRTOS — including ESP32 secure boot for Amazon AWS.
- IMX8mp Yocto Linux R&D, architecture, and FW development.
- IMX6 Android AOSP development on the Trimble TCU5.
Analysis and implementation of OS and app-level embedded Android systems.
Analysis and C++ implementation of high-fidelity systems and physics running on Eagle Dynamics DCS modules.
Onsite/remote work on Linux (Debian/Yocto), Android (AOSP/Things) and FreeRTOS for iMX6, iMXRT, Rockchip 3399, ESP32 and STM32 SoCs.
IoT brewing monitoring system on ESP32 / FreeRTOS.
Evoko room booking system on an NXP iMX6 Android tablet and cloud. Customization and new development on Android 7.1: drivers, services, build system, OTA, SDK and API.
Started as senior embedded developer on custom Linux devices, then led a team delivering a fully customized Linux Debian OS and service layer for a new iMX6 NXP/Marvell hardware platform. Including HAB/secure boot and hardware chain of trust.
Samsung Knox custom Android features for NDA customers: customizing apps and services for Samsung smartphones and tablets.
NFC integration for Qualcomm MSM8930 on Android and Windows Phone. C/C++/Java driver and HAL development on the Qualcomm platform.
C/C++/Java development on apps, services and HAL for Android (HTC Dream) and WinPhone custom devices.
Project manager and associate at this Microsoft Partner company, delivering applications and services for many customers.
- Games for J2ME and Symbian phones (888.com).
- Mobile messaging platform for J2ME and Symbian phones.
Taught a J2EE and Oracle development course at the Menarini data warehouse.
Online demos / funny projects
Linux embedded LLM for log-anomaly detection
A local LLM running on the NXP i.MX 8M Plus NPU for edge-computing log-anomaly detection.
llama.cpp profiling LVGL on QEMU via MCP
MCP server for a local LLM, profiling an LVGL program running in QEMU. github.com/leonardosalvatore/llama.cpp.debugger
3D ultrasonic sonar mapping
Arduino dual-axis servos sweep an ultrasonic sensor; USB streams the 3D points into Unity for visualization.
llama.cpp MCP server debugging LVGL in QEMU
An MCP server talking to llama.cpp on a local GPU, debugging an LVGL demo inside QEMU. Project: github.com/leonardosalvatore/llama.cpp.debugger
Little Walker — Lego / Duplo explorer robot
Explorer robot with Lego, Duplo, 3D-printed parts, ESP32, and sensors. Project: github.com/leonardosalvatore/little-walker
Llama Wars — local AI bots that improve while fighting
A tiny Raylib arena where llama.cpp rewrites the blue team’s Lua between rounds from match telemetry.
StrandedBot — local LLM in a pixel-art world
A llama.cpp model (Ministral-3-8B) reasoning inside a Raylib simulation. Project: github.com/leonardosalvatore/StrandedBot
DIY compact analog joystick flight control
Taranis Quanum guts, 24 mappable buttons and 5 axes on an Arduino Micro. HID for games on PC and consoles.
StrandedBot (longer run)
A longer session of StrandedBot: the local LLM navigating and reasoning in the simulated environment.
Llama Wars — local AI recodes the blue team, match by match
llama.cpp watches the fight telemetry and rewrites the blue team’s Lua after every round. Green team stays fixed.
Experimental custom gimbal analog joystick
Weekend DIY stick from pots, aluminium and glue. Arduino Micro HID — works as a game controller on PC and consoles.
Snake gameplay
A Snake game for Windows Phone: tap the screen border to turn. Play, rate, and a link back to beegroove.com.
RDI optimization
Optimizing the RDI radar / MFD drawing in a DCS aircraft module — green-on-black cockpit instruments.
Space defense
A short space-defense gameplay clip — one of the older BeeGroove game experiments.