Tomas Evensen is Chief Technology Officer, Open Source at Xilinx. In this role he is heading up the Open Source Program Office (OSPO) at Xilinx. He has also been driving the embedded software strategy for Xilinx SoCs.

Prior to joining Xilinx, Evensen was Chief Technology Officer at Wind River for 7 years, as well as GM for the Wind River Tools Division and VP of Engineering for the VxWorks operating system.

Before that he was the creator of the Diab Data C/C++ compilers.
Evensen received his MSEE at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.