Dr. Miro M. Samek is the creator of the open source QP real-time embedded frameworks and the freeware QM graphical model-based design tool. He is also the founder of Quantum Leaps (state-machine.com) -- the market leading provider of modern embedded software based on active objects and hierarchical state machines as well as tools for visual modeling, automatic code generation, unit testing and prototyping of deeply embedded software.
Miro teaches the popular "Modern Embedded Systems Programming" video course on YouTube (see https://www.youtube.com/c/StateMachineCOM )