Embedded Alley Solutions, Inc, announced that is has hired two more well known open source developers. Pantelis Antoniou, previously at Intracom, and Tom Rini, previously at MontaVista Software, have joined Embedded Alley's growing engineering team.

Said CTO Dan Malek, "Our momentum in the embedded Linux market is reflected not only in our rapidly growing customer list, but also in our ability to attract some of the best talent from the open source community. As with the rest of our team, Pantelis and Tom bring a wide range of technical and product development knowledge in addition to their superb Linux skills. We are excited they have joined Embedded Alley to broaden the services we can provide to enable Linux products."

About Pantelis Antoniou
Pantelis, based in Athens, Greece, has spent the last 10 years working on Telecommunication Equipment. He has designed and developed TDMA, ISDN, routers and VoIP CPE products. Most recently, before he joined Embedded Alley, he was working on VoIP enabled routers and was responsible for both, the BSP and the voice protocol areas.

While mostly known in the Linux kernel PowerPC community for his work on the 8xx and 82xx family, he has worked on both ARM & MIPS architectures and dabbles with many other community embedded projects. His current areas of interests are interfacing Linux properly with micro-computing resources, unifying the embedded bootloader interfaces, and real time Linux extension for supporting O(1) priority inheritance.

About Tom Rini
Tom Rini brings not only a decade of experience with the Linux Kernel to the company but over five years of experience with all MontaVista Software products. Said Tom Rini, "I'm quite excited about being able to apply what I've learned over the last 10 years directly to our customers needs and still be contributing work back into the Open Source community."

While also best known for working in the Linux kernel PowerPC community over the years, he has also worked on the ARM, MIPS and SuperH architectures and is currently a comaintainer of the KGDB project. His current areas of interest are getting a functional kernel debugger into the mainline kernel and unifying the embedded bootloader interfaces.