Jeremy Kerr

Jeremy contributes reusable device-communications infrastructure, alongside documentation that helps engineers understand and apply it. Code Construct’s Rust tools support clients bringing new hardware platforms into operation, with shared interfaces for Linux and microcontrollers. Open implementations and virtual-device testing give firmware developers practical ways to exercise communications before target hardware is available, supporting earlier checks of platform software.

Jeremy Kerr is founder and open-source systems engineer at Code Construct in Perth, Australia, developing software that enables hardware components to communicate. Jeremy authored Linux's Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) socket implementation, providing the interface applications use to exchange management messages across devices.

At Code Construct, projects include open-source Rust libraries that support communications across both Linux and microcontrollers. Shared interfaces allow applications to run in these different environments with minimal changes, alongside a virtual device for exercising firmware communications before target hardware is ready. Jeremy published a technical guide explaining these components and how the architecture fits together, making the engineering work straightforward to adopt.

Contributions also include an OpenBMC design document proposing reusable communications infrastructure for system-management software and firmware. Together, the open code and documentation advance software quality through inspectable implementations, reusable components and practical ways to test device communications early.