Alex Tzonkov
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Folsom, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Tzonkov is a Principal Member of Technical Staff with 11+ years of experience in chipset validation, firmware and software development, now driving PMTS software engineering at AMD from Folsom, CA. He combines deep hands-on expertise in post-silicon validation, power-management firmware, Linux device drivers and compiler-based validation frameworks with proven team and product leadership at Intel. Alex has repeatedly owned architecture and tooling—building CI/CD across multiple git repositories, leading Agile/SAFe transformations, and serving as product owner for C++ compiler-validation projects using LLVM. He is known for mentoring engineers, hiring and scaling validation teams, and for practical problem-solving that spans hardware signal debugging to system-level firmware. Quietly, he pairs analog lab experience (logic analyzers, oscilloscopes) with modern software practices, enabling faster, more reliable silicon bring-up.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of South Florida
Bulgarian, English
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Github Skills (200)
atom-editor10
automation10
synology10
home-automation10
slack-notifications10
privacy10
python10
home-assistant10
collaboration10
mqtt10
mattermost10
garden10
lifecycle10
transmission10
plex10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
attzonko/mmpy_bot
May 2018 - Nov 2022
A python-based chatbot for Mattermost (http://www.mattermost.org).
Contributions:14 releases, 23 reviews, 80 commits in 4 years 6 months
chatbotbotpythonmattermost
attzonko/homeassistant-config
Oct 2016 - May 2022
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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