Alejandro is the current lead developer and maintainer of opkg, a package manager tailored for embedded devices. He works for National Instruments, having work extensively on the Yocto-based distribution (NI Linux Real-Time) used on x64 and ARM embedded controllers. Past work includes systems configuration management on embedded systems, analytics (Cloud and edge), highly scalable systems. He is passionate about Open Source, currently leading the Open Source Guild at National Instruments.