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Siratul Islam

Zephyr RTOS Maintainer β€’ Embedded Systems Engineer β€’ Physics Researcher

Biometrics Subsystem Maintainer @ Zephyr Project | Research Assistant @ SUST

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About Me

Official maintainer for the Zephyr RTOS project (Linux Foundation), responsible for the Biometrics Subsystem and board support across ARM and RISC-V platforms. Physics undergraduate and Embedded Systems Engineer specializing in RTOS kernel development, Industrial IoT, and autonomous systems.

Research Assistant at SUST EEE Department, focusing on autonomous navigation, energy-efficient building automation, and real-world embedded applications for medical and industrial systems.

πŸ“Š Open Source Impact

  • πŸ”§ 17+ merged PRs to Zephyr RTOS mainline
  • πŸ›‘οΈ Subsystem Maintainer for Biometrics (first authentication framework in Zephyr)
  • πŸ“¦ Active maintainer for 9 board support packages across ARM/RISC-V/Xtensa
  • 🌍 Serving 5,000+ developers globally through upstream contributions
  • πŸ† Zephyr Contributors Team member since 2025

πŸ”­ Currently Working On

  • πŸ€– ROS2 Autonomous Navigation with Jetson Orin + STM32F4 sensor fusion
  • πŸ“‘ Radar occupancy detection for government building energy optimization
  • πŸ” RFID attendance systems for rural Bangladesh educational institutions
  • 🎯 Smart display system with custom Zephyr RTOS drivers and OTA updates

πŸ› οΈ Highlighted Open Source Work

Biometrics Subsystem Maintainer & Triage Member

🌟 Top Contributions

🚧 Subsystem Architecture

  • #100139 - Biometrics Subsystem: Authored and maintaining Zephyr's first biometric authentication framework. Designed complete API, driver abstractions, and reference implementations for ZFM-x0 & GT-5x fingerprint sensors.

πŸ”Œ Device Drivers

πŸ’» Board Support (ARM & RISC-V)

➑️ View All 17+ Pull Requests

Published production-ready sensor and display libraries:

  • RD-03D Radar: mmWave radar library with signal filtering algorithms
  • TM1637 Display: Low-level bit-banging driver for 7-segment displays

πŸ”¬ Research & Engineering

Research Assistant β€’ SUST Dept. of Electrical & Electronic Engineering β€’ Jun 2025 - Present

  • Autonomous Vehicle Navigation: ROS2-based navigation stack on Jetson Orin with LiDAR sensor fusion and custom STM32F4 firmware for real-time motor control via micro-ROS.
  • Government Energy Optimization: IoT-enabled smart relay systems for cost reduction in government buildings using ESP32 and MQTT.
  • Radar Occupancy Detection: RD-03D radar algorithms for automated energy efficiency in public facilities.
  • Educational Technology: RFID-based attendance management systems for rural schools in Bangladesh.

πŸ’» Technical Stack

Domain Technologies
Embedded Systems Zephyr RTOS (Maintainer), FreeRTOS, STM32 HAL, ESP-IDF, Embedded Linux, Embassy-rs
Languages C C++ Rust Python
Hardware Platforms STM32 (H7/H5/F4/WB), ESP32 (S3/C6/C3), Jetson Orin, RISC-V, ARM Cortex-M
Protocols & IoT I2C, SPI, UART, MQTT, BLE, LoRa, WiFi, micro-ROS, TCP/IP
Sensors & Peripherals LiDAR, mmWave Radar, Fingerprint Sensors, Environmental Sensors, LED Matrices
Tools & Platforms CMake, DeviceTree, Kconfig, KiCAD, OpenOCD, GDB, ROS2, Docker, Git, Linux
Web/Cloud SvelteKit, Next.js, Django (for IoT Dashboards & Tooling)

πŸ† Recognition

  • Zephyr Contributors Team, Official Member (2025) - Linux Foundation
  • Biometrics Subsystem Maintainer, Zephyr RTOS (2026)
  • Bronze Medal, International University Physics Competition 2024
    • Modeled space station air evacuation using fluid dynamics (Poiseuille's Law)

🎯 Featured Project

Smart Display System with Zephyr RTOS

Production IoT-enabled display running on ESP32-S3 with complete Zephyr RTOS firmware stack. Features custom HUB12 LED matrix driver (upstreamed to Zephyr mainline), secure OTA updates with RSA-signed binaries, MQTT communication over TLS 1.3, and WiFi provisioning via captive portal.

Technologies: Zephyr RTOS, ESP32, HUB12 LED Matrix, MQTT, mbedTLS, SNTP, Custom Font Rendering
Demo video forthcoming


Let's Build Reliable, Real-Time Systems

Contributing to open source β€’ Advancing embedded systems β€’ Solving real-world problems

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    Forked from zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr

    Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.

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