Martin Roukala, né Peres

My publications

About me

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My name is Martin Roukala (né Peres). I am a currently self-employed (Mupuf Tmi), and working as a contractor for Valve in order to improve the Linux-gaming experience. Previously, I was the CI/Tooling Architect Graphics Software Engineer at Intel’s Open Source Graphics Center where I worked to deliver production-ready upstream drivers for Intel’s GPUs. On my spare time, I listen/play/record music, think about beating the software-induced planned obsolescence using Open Source drivers, and I design discovereable IP blocks for your FPGA SoCs.

I also hold a Ph.D. in Computer science since December 2014 from the LaBRI, a research center located at the Université Bordeaux 1. My doctoral thesis is called ”A holistic approach to Green Networking in Wireless Networks - Collaboration among autonomic systems as a mean towards efficient resource-sharing”, it was supervised by Pr. Francine Krief, from the research team “Languages, Systems and Network”, theme ”QoS and security in next-gen networks”.

If you want more information about my doctoral’s research, please visit my research project page.

Links: personal web page, and my CV/resume (2020).

Work

  • 2020 - Now : Contractor for Valve, working on improving the Linux Gaming experience (Finland)
  • 2019 - 2020 : CI/Tooling Architect at Intel’s Open Source Graphics Center (Finland)
  • 2015 - 2019 : Software Graphics Engineer at Intel’s Open Source Technology Center (Finland)

Education

  • 2015 - 2019 : Studying Finnish at the university of Helsinki. Reached the B2 level.
  • 2011 - 2014 : Ph.D. student at LaBRI (Green Networking, Hardware power consumption, collaboration of nodes within a wireless network)
  • 2013 : University of Ottawa, IMAGINE research team (3 months)
  • 2008 - 2011 : ENSI de Bourges: Security of Ubiquitous Systems
  • 2008 : University of Central Lancashire (Microprocessor-based systems & Signal processing) (3 months)
  • 2006 - 2008 : IUT Montpellier 2: Software engineering
  • 2004 - 2006 : A-levels in Mathematics and Engineering science

Research Projects

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Other duties

  • 2020: Co-organisation of the XDC 2020 conference
  • 2019-2020: Video team member for the Graphics and HW enablement devrooms at FOSDEM 2019 and 2020
  • 2016: Chairman of the XDC 2016 conference
  • 2015 - Now : Partial Freedesktop.org admin (mostly bugzilla and account management)
  • 2014: Chairman of the XDC 2014 conference
  • 2014: Video team member for the Graphics devroom for FOSDEM
  • 2014 - 2018 : Main contact of the X.Org Foundation for the Google Summer of Code
  • 2013 - 2017 : Administrator and main contributor to the X.Org Foundation’s Google+ account.

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