Salvador Almanza has spent most of his career in the embedded software area, mainly in the Automotive industry. His passion is software design for constrained devices; his primary interest is E/E systems architecture, AUTOSAR, and the application of the methodology for effective and optimized ECU software development, reuse, process improvement, etc. He has provided consulting and training mainly in embedded software, E/E systems architecture, and AUTOSAR. He is currently with Cummins Inc. as Senior Technical Advisor and AUTOSAR system architect. Salvador holds a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Instituto Tecnologico de Chihuahua in Mexico and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico.