Tesfa Mael

Tesfa Mael has over 17 years of experience in software engineering. Tesfa started their career in 2001 as a Research Assistant at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 2003, they took on the role of Product Engineer (Co-Op) at Exar Corporation. From 2005 to 2010, they were a Senior Software Development Engineer at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. In 2010, they became a Member of Technical Staff at Wind River, where they were a Scrum Master and worked on hypervisor latency performance measurements. Since 2018, they have been a (Remote) Lead Embedded Software Engineer at wolfSSL, where they develop high quality and portable embedded software security solutions. Tesfa is also responsible for the development of DO-178C wolfCrypt as a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution for connected avionics applications.

Tesfa Mael received a Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in 2005 and a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley in 2004.