Erik is the Applications and Systems Manager for Octavo Systems. With over 16 years of industry experience designing hardware and software systems, including 11 years at Texas Instruments, Erik has supported hundreds of developers building embedded systems. Programming on Linux ever since he was a student, Erik has contributed to open source projects including BeagleBoard.org and the WARP (Wireless Open-Access Research Platform) project. Erik has presented and taught workshops at industry conferences and universities.