Alan Carvalho de Assis graduated in Computer Science and holds a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering. Alan started working with embedded systems in 1998 (PIC MCUs) and with embedded Linux (uCLinux) in 2001. He worked developing Linux embedded systems at Freescale (now NXP) and other local companies in Brazil. In 2010 he discovered NuttX RTOS while reading an article in the Linux Journal and started using it to develop projects for many different companies.