Abdul Attar
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAbdul Attar is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with over 15 years of firmware and platform bring-up experience, currently focused on delivering UEFI/BIOS solutions for AMD EPYC datacenter servers. He has led cross-functional firmware architecture and validation efforts across AMD, Marvell/Cavium, Qualcomm and HPE, repeatedly shipping edk2-based platforms and PoCs such as an EDKII firmware for EPYC Zen 3. Deep expertise spans ACPI, UEFI, PI, BMC/IPMI, PCIe and low-level drivers (I2C, GPIO, USB, SATA) across ARM64 and x86 server ecosystems, combined with hands-on SoC and board bring-up from pre-silicon to post-silicon. A consistent upstream contributor to the prominent tianocore/edk2 project, he’s enhanced ACPI parsing and platform state libraries used by the community. Known for pragmatic solutions—like integrating MinPlatform/DynamicTables and AML-based automation—to maximize BIOS generality and cloud BIOS “flavors,” he pairs technical leadership with individual contributor depth. Based in Bengaluru, he blends enterprise-grade rigor with open-source craftsmanship to accelerate server platform delivery.
4 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
S. S. L. C, S. S. L. C at Karnataka SecondaryB.E, Computer Science, B.E, Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityDiploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Karnataka Technical Education Board
English, Hindi, Kannada, Urdu
Github Skills (10)
c1710
firmware10
uefi10
embedded10
c1110
sys10
acpi10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
python5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tianocore/edk2
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
EDK II
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:78 reviews, 4 commits, 80 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Abdul primarily contributes to the EDK2 project by implementing and improving ACPI parsing functionality. Their work involves developing and enhancing bitfield parsers and adding support for parsing Local APIC structures within the ACPI MADT table. They also worked on the MmSaveStateLib for Intel processors, enabling the reading and writing of save state registers. Further contributions extend to defining AMD SMRAM save state maps.
uefipythonfirmwarec
abdattar/edk2-platforms
Mar 2022 - Feb 2025
EDK II sample platform branches and tags
Contributions:34 pushes, 71 branches in 2 years 11 months
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