Paul Barker has been an active member of the Yocto Project community since 2013. He has contributed to the project in many ways, including maintaining the opkg package manager during 2013-2015. More recent contributions have focused on Board Support Packages for several single board computers and core components such as the archiver. As a Principal Engineer at Konsulko Paul helps resolves technical challenges for clients in all areas of Embedded Linux development including the kernel, U-boot and Yocto Project. He is also the maintainer for the SanCloud BSP for Yocto Project and a contributor to the Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) project. Paul previously worked with several clients as the Pricipal Engineer of Beta Five Ltd and before that he was responsible for the development and maintenance of Linux support at CommAgility Ltd, a manufacturer of telecomms test equipment.

Paul has previously spoken on the subject of license compliance at ELC Europe in 2019 and on the subject of Yocto Project best practices at the associated Yocto Project developer day. Paul has also spoken on the subject of opkg maintenance and Embedded Linux based underwater noise monitoring equipment at FOSDEM in 2014, as well as at several academic conferences on the subjects of underwater acoustics, noise monitoring equipment and data analysis.