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Tom Burdick

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Tom Burdick

Thomas Burdick contributed to Zephyr RTOS and AmbiqMicro/ambiqzephyr by developing protocol features, refactoring kernel subsystems, and addressing safety and security issues. He implemented MCTP over I2C with GPIO signaling, enabling interrupt-driven communication between controllers and devices, and matured the RTIO API with producer-consumer samples. In Zephyr, he reorganized run queue initialization to improve maintainability and removed unsafe DMA syscalls to harden security. His work included bug fixes for MISRA C compliance and memory management, as well as CI integration for protocol samples. Thomas used C, YAML, and CMake, demonstrating depth in embedded systems and kernel development.

Overall Statistics

Feature vs Bugs

40%Features

Repository Contributions

15Total
Bugs
6
Commits
15
Features
4
Lines of code
1,602
Activity Months5

Work History

October 2025

2 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2025

October 2025 monthly work summary focusing on security hardening and CI-enabled integration for Zephyr RTOS. Delivered two main items for the zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr repository, with concrete code changes, documentation updates, and CI/Test improvements.

July 2025

2 Commits

Jul 1, 2025

July 2025 monthly summary for AmbiqMicro/ambiqzephyr focused on code quality, safety compliance, and maintainability. No new features released this month; two critical bug fixes were implemented to strengthen compliance with MISRA-C:2004 and to simplify memory management in the llext loading path. These changes reduce risk in safety-critical code and improve long-term maintainability of the RTOS integration.

May 2025

4 Commits • 1 Features

May 1, 2025

May 2025: Delivered a stable RTIO surface in AmbiqMicro/ambiqzephyr with API maturation (0.2.0) and a producer-consumer sample, fixed LPI2C log level handling, and added a dedicated MCTP heap to prevent interrupt-context deadlocks. These changes boost reliability, observability, and deterministic startup, delivering measurable business value for downstream integrations.

April 2025

5 Commits • 1 Features

Apr 1, 2025

For 2025-04, AmbiqMicro/ambiqzephyr delivered a new MCTP over I2C feature using GPIO signaling, including bindings, endpoints, headers, and sample applications. A key macro-tokenization bug affecting I2C device definitions was fixed, improving robustness. The work enhances interrupt-driven communication between I2C controllers and target devices, strengthens device-tree and sample-based onboarding, and adds practical demonstrations to accelerate integration with new platforms.

October 2024

2 Commits • 1 Features

Oct 1, 2024

October 2024 monthly summary for kholia/zephyr focusing on code quality and maintainability improvements. Key feature delivered: Code refactor of run queue initialization. Moved initialization logic from sched.c to priority_q.h to reduce conditional compilation and improve maintainability, with functionality unchanged. This lays groundwork for easier future enhancements to the run queue and scheduling subsystem while preserving existing behavior and performance characteristics.

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Quality Metrics

Correctness90.0%
Maintainability88.0%
Architecture88.6%
Performance83.4%
AI Usage20.0%

Skills & Technologies

Programming Languages

CCMakeCMakeScriptRSTYAMLreStructuredText

Technical Skills

API VersioningC ProgrammingCI/CDCommunication ProtocolsDevice DriversDevice TreeEmbedded SystemsGPIOI2CInter-Process Communication (IPC)Kernel ConfigurationKernel DevelopmentMCTPMCTP ProtocolMISRA C Compliance

Repositories Contributed To

3 repos

Overview of all repositories you've contributed to across your timeline

AmbiqMicro/ambiqzephyr

Apr 2025 Jul 2025
3 Months active

Languages Used

CCMakeCMakeScriptRSTYAMLreStructuredText

Technical Skills

Communication ProtocolsDevice DriversDevice TreeEmbedded SystemsGPIOI2C

kholia/zephyr

Oct 2024 Oct 2024
1 Month active

Languages Used

C

Technical Skills

C ProgrammingEmbedded SystemsKernel Development

zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr

Oct 2025 Oct 2025
1 Month active

Languages Used

CYAML

Technical Skills

CI/CDEmbedded SystemsKernel DevelopmentProtocol ImplementationSystem ProgrammingTesting Frameworks