Abner Chang
Opensource Architect At AMD
Cedar Park, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbner Chang is an open-source architect with 10+ years of experience and a long career in firmware and system software spanning Phoenix Technologies, HPE, and now AMD. He specializes in low-level firmware, BIOS and Redfish-related development, having contributed to the widely used tianocore/EDK II project to improve USB Redfish host interfaces and REST compliance. As a former Master Technologist and Vice Chair of a RISC-V configuration task group, he blends deep technical design with standards leadership across server and silicon ecosystems. Based in Cedar Park, Texas, he brings a mathematician’s rigor from a BS in Applied Mathematics to pragmatic, production-focused engineering. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex platform requirements into robust, compliant firmware implementations that interoperate across hardware and management stacks.
10 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Applied Mathematics, BS, Applied Mathematics at Chinese Culture University
English, Chinese, taiwaness
Github Skills (5)
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firmware10
uefi10
redfish10
c1110
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tianocore/edk2
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
EDK II
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 reviews, 21 commits, 191 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Abner primarily contributed to the EDK2 repository, focusing on firmware development related to Redfish. Their work included implementing support for USB Redfish host interfaces, addressing REST request compliance issues, and enhancing the installation of protocols on network interfaces for Redfish discovery. These changes involved modifying C code and header files within the RedfishPkg, demonstrating a focus on improving the functionality and compliance of Redfish-related features.
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riscv/riscv-smbios
Sep 2021 - Dec 2023
RISC-V SMBIOS Type 44 Spec
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 3 months
risc-vriscvspecriscsmbios
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