Alexey Kardashevsky
AMD Engineer
Canberra, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexey Kardashevsky is an experienced firmware and Linux kernel engineer with 15+ years building low-level software for servers, virtualization, and embedded controllers, currently working at AMD in Canberra. His background spans firmware for CellBE-based blade servers and SLOF, IPMI and ATCA service processors, and a long tenure at IBM focused on KVM, qemu, virtio, PCI and POWER platform integration. At AMD he has been driving PCIe, SEV-SNP/SEV-TIO/SEV-ES related work and contributed SEV-ES DebugVirtualization support to the widely used tianocore/edk2 firmware. Comfortable across architectures (powerpc64, arm, EPYC) and hardware domains, he blends firmware, kernel and hardware expertise to solve cross-stack problems like device initialization, secure virtualization and platform power/PCI interactions. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic diagnostics and tooling born from years of on-field support of high-performance and petascale systems.
15 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Moscow State University of Transport (MIIT)
English, Russian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
uefi10
powerpc10
assembly10
qemu10
computer-architecture10
architecture10
firmware10
c1110
c1710
kernel10
pci10
sys10
kernel-mode10
assembler10
embedded10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tianocore/edk2
Sep 2022 - Jun 2024
EDK II
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:7 PRs, 2 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Alexey primarily contributed to the implementation of AMD SEV-ES DebugVirtualization support within the EDK II firmware. Their work involved modifying existing code and adding new APIs across multiple stages of the firmware (PEI, SEC, DXE) to accommodate the new feature. This included modifying existing libraries and header files to correctly handle the new debug virtualization feature bits, while ensuring proper checks and behavior depending on the active SEV levels.
uefipythonfirmwarec
aik/qemu
Jan 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:104 pushes, 81 branches, 29 tags in 10 years 2 months
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