Robert Oshana has over 30 years of experience in the embedded software industry, primarily focused on embedded and real-time systems for the defence industry and semiconductor industries. He has BSEE, MSEE, MSCS, and MBA degrees and is a Senior Member of IEEE. Rob is an international speaker and has over 100 presentations and publications in various technology fields and has written several books on embedded software technology. Rob is an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University and University of Texas and is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and Director of Software Enablement for Digital Networking at Freescale Semiconductor. German Rivera is a senior embedded software engineer at NXP. He develops embedded Linux software for System On-Chip networking platforms and bare-metal software for microcontrollers. He has over 25 years of industry experience developing system-level software. He has also held software development positions at Microsoft, Cisco, IBM, NetApp and HP.

He has developed kernel-level software for multiple operating systems including: Linux, Windows, AIX and HP-UX, and has ported kernel-level software from Solaris to HP-UX and from Linux to AIX. He holds a Master of Software Engineering (MSE) degree from Carnegie Mellon University.