Embedded Alley Solutions, Inc, a professional services company specializing in embedded Linux announced opening of design center in Arizona. Along with existing offices in Santa Clara, CA, and Nashua, New Hampshire, Embedded Alley now boasts a nationwide presence as a provider of embedded Linux services and solutions. Well known long time open source developer, and a PowerPC Linux maintainer, Matt Porter, to lead the Arizona office. "Matt is among the very best and experienced embedded Linux developers and we're very excited to be working with him once again," said Dan Malek, CTO. "Being able to attract talent like Matt is a further testament to Embedded Alley's momentum and allows us to build a team with unparalleled commercial embedded Linux experience," said Pete Popov, CEO. "Our customers are rediscovering the value of onshore services provided by highly experienced consultants and our list of Fortune 500 customers is growing rapidly. We continue to engage very early on in the product design and architecture phase with large companies adopting embedded Linux and Matt's role as a lead system architect is extremely important to us." About Matt Porter Matt Porter brings more than 12 years of embedded technology experience to Embedded Alley. He has worked on products in avionics, cryptography, secure systems, networking, telecom, and consumer electronics. He has experience with VxWorks, QNX, pSOS, Linux, IA32, ARM, Xscale, MIPS, PowerPC, M68K, Coldfire. He was most recently a senior kernel architect at MontaVista Software and is an active PowerPC Linux maintainer.