Allen Hsu
Senior Software Engineer at PhotoGrid
Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolAllen Hsu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Taipei with 4 years of formal experience building iOS and Android applications and a longer track record in embedded and firmware work. He blends mobile app development with hands-on IoT and platform firmware expertise, contributing to notable open-source projects like OpenBMC where he enabled hardware watchdogs, NIC hot-plug handling, and step-motor services for Bletchley and Yosemite4 platforms. His career spans product-focused roles at PhotoGrid, ChitChat Technology, and Cheetah Mobile, following early engineering foundations at Quanta Computer and advanced study in Engineering Science from National Cheng Kung University. Known for bridging mobile UX requirements with low-level hardware control, he delivers pragmatic solutions that operate reliably across constrained devices and distributed systems.
4 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at 中原大學Master's degree, Engineering Science, Master's degree, Engineering Science at 國立成功大學
Github Skills (9)
systemd10
embedded10
system-configuration10
sys10
networking9
build-system8
yocto8
power-management7
linux7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
openbmc/openbmc
Dec 2021 - Apr 2022
OpenBMC Distribution
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Allen primarily focused on platform-specific firmware and configuration changes within the OpenBMC project. Their work involved adding services and tools for controlling a step motor on the Bletchley platform, including service initialization and power control. They also addressed build issues by modifying settings manager code and refactoring settings defaults for multi-host support. Further contributions included enabling a runtime hardware watchdog and reconfiguring the network interface for NIC hot-plug/removal on the Yosemite4 platform.
openbmcdistribution
Allen-Hsu-Wang/Tektagon-OpenEdition
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
Hardware Root of Trust
Contributions:6 PRs, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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