Allen Su
Over 6 years firmware experience in electronics industry. Specialized in BIOS & Linux System troubleshooting.
I have a strong knowledge of PCIe, Virtualization Technology, Linux KVM and QEMU. And also, I am talented in learning new technologies and possessing individual problem solving ability.
Firmware Engineer
Taiwan
[email protected]
Work Technique
Programming
- Expertise with C Programming
- Expertise with Data Structure
- Developing Experience of EDKII
- Developing Experience of MCU
Knowledge
- Familiar with PCI Express Gen3
- Familiar with Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O(VT-d)
- Familiar with Intel Virtual-Machine Extensions (VMX)
Research
- Research Experience of the Intel IOMMU driver of Linux kernel
- Research Experience of the Communication between KVM and QEMU
Personality
- Talented in learning new technologies
- Team oriented
- Performance driven
- Forward thinking
- Collaborative
Experience
威聯通, 軟體工程師, 7月 2019 ~ 現在
QNAP Systems, Inc, Senior Software Engineer, Jul 2019 ~ Present
- Responsible for Hardware Abstraction Layer(HAL) porting in QTS
- Check the functionality of USB, LAN, DISK, PCIE Device on NAS
- Check the communication protocol between NAS and EC
- Responsible for checking the basic functionality of QTS
- Debug and analysis for PCIE protocol issue through the LeCroy PCIE Protocol Analyzer
- Debug and analysis for USB protocol issue through the LeCroy USB Protocol Analyzer
威盛電子, BIOS 工程師, 10月 2015 ~ 6月 2019
VIA Technologies, Inc., BIOS Engineer, Oct 2015 ~ Jun 2019
UEFI BIOS experience
- VIA x86 CPU CRB (Customer Reference Board) UEFI BIOS development
- Responsible for PCIE protocol in BIOS
- Responsible for Virtualization protocol in BIOS
- Resolved BIOS Related Issue on Motherboard
- Tool Development for Hardware Design Verification and Validation
Software tools develop
- Software programming in DOS / Linux / UEFI Shell
Education
國立台北科技大學 | 電機工程系(碩士) 2013-2015 (畢業)
National Taipei University of Technology, Master Degree, Electrical Engineering, 2013 ~ 2015
國立高雄應用科技大學 | 電機工程系(學士) 2009-2013(畢業)
National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences, Bachelor Degree, Electrical Engineering, 2009 ~ 2013
Achievement
QNAP System
- Discovered an NAS hardware issue that power source is insufficient through the protocol analyzer. Improved the hardware reliability.
- Discovered some NAS BIOS issue through the PCIe spec knowledge.
- Highly improved the performance for some daemon in QTS.
- Discovered NUMA platform's performance issue.
- Upgrade UDEV version from 147 to 182 for QTS.
- Made a presentation about PCIe AER to improve teammate's debugging ability.
- Made a presentation about USB LTSSM to improve teammate's debugging ability.
VIA Technologies
- Made a presentation about "PCIe Gen3" specification.
- Made a presentation about "Intel VMX" and "Intel VT-d" specification.
- Made a presentation about "Linux IOMMU driver", "KVM" and "QEMU"
- Discovered some IC design issue through development tools
