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ernestoCruz05/README.md

Hi, I'm Ernesto Cruz

Firmware Developer | Systems Programmer | Wayland Tooling

I write UEFI firmware (EDK II, DXE drivers) and Linux systems code in C and Rust. I contribute to the Mango Wayland compositor and build most of the tooling around it.

I run my own infrastructure. My portfolio is self-hosted on a home server I architected and configured from bare metal up.

Portfolio Mail


Stuff i do

Domain Technologies
Firmware & UEFI C EDK II UEFI RP2040
Systems & Wayland Rust Wayland Lua Unix
Infrastructure & Ops Linux Admin Docker Self Hosting

Firmware & UEFI

C, EDK II, UEFI BDS, Raspberry Pi Pico W, MicroPython

A pre-boot remote authorisation system: the machine won't boot until a network-issued ticket says it can. This is the reference implementation for an academic paper.

The host firmware hands all network operations (WiFi, TLS, HTTP) to a USB-attached Pico W, so the code running in UEFI stays small and auditable. An EDK II DXE driver finds the Pico over USB CDC-ACM, and a BDS-phase application checks the authorisation ticket against NVRAM state before it chain-loads the next boot option. On failure it drops into a recovery UI instead.

C, EDK II, USB, WiFi2 protocol

A UEFI DXE driver that turns a €7 Raspberry Pi Pico W into a WiFi adapter for firmware with no native WiFi stack. It detects the Pico on the USB bus, drives it over bulk CDC-ACM transfers, and publishes the standard EFI_WIRELESS_MAC_CONNECTION_II protocol, so any UEFI application can scan and connect through it. Useful for pre-boot provisioning and lab setups where there's no vendor WiFi driver to be found.


The Mango ecosystem

I contribute upstream to Mango, a dwm-style Wayland compositor, and maintain a set of tools around it:

Project What it is
mango-ext My extension fork of Mango, with custom transition shaders and experimental features.
mplug Lightweight IPC-based plugin manager and Lua scripting engine for MangoWC. (Rust)
mdisplay GUI monitor layout manager for MangoWC. (Rust)
mlint Linter for mplug plugins. (Rust)
dunsh Trying to make the most out of dunst. (Lua)
useful_plugins The mplug plugins I run daily.

Earlier work

Older projects
  • hwprofiler is a cross-platform hardware fingerprinting CLI in C, built with Meson for Linux, Windows, macOS, and the BSDs.
  • InputRelay translates controller inputs into keyboard and mouse events, in C.
  • RustyRoom is a TCP text chat in Rust with a terminal UI.
  • unix-topic-chat is a topic-based chat in C built on Unix IPC (pipes) with an ncurses interface.
  • MyCOLL is a full-stack logistics app: .NET MAUI/Blazor client, .NET Web API, EF Core.

My Home server

Home Server

Hardware (Custom Build):

  • Compute: Intel Core i7-14700KF (20 Cores) @ 5.6 GHz
  • Memory: 32GB DDR5 ECC (Error Correction Code)
  • Motherboard: Gigabyte B860M
  • Networking: 2.5 GbE Uplink

Service Orchestration (Docker/Nginx):

  • Core: Nginx Proxy Manager, Portainer, Watchtower
  • Network: Pi-hole (DNS/Adblock), WireGuard (VPN)
  • Storage & Productivity: Nextcloud, Joplin, Glance
  • Gaming: Dedicated Game Server containers

Pinned Loading

  1. mdisplay mdisplay Public

    GUI monitor layout manager for mangowc :3

    Rust 14

  2. mplug mplug Public

    A lightweight, IPC-based plugin manager and Lua scripting engine for the MangoWC Wayland compositor.

    Rust 16

  3. mango-ext mango-ext Public archive

    Forked from mangowm/mango

    Practical and Powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)

    C 58 3

  4. miru miru Public

    Rust

  5. mangowm/mango mangowm/mango Public

    Practical and Powerful wayland compositor (dwm but wayland)

    C 3.5k 220