Chris Chiu
System Application Engineer
Hsinchu City, Taiwan, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Chiu is a System Application Engineer with a decade of experience building embedded firmware, drivers, and system software for consumer and IoT products. Based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, he has driven MCU reference designs, EVB/PCB development, and picture-quality algorithms and tools for display scaler ICs—work that includes VESA DisplayHDR certification and automated PQ tuning. An active open-source contributor, Chris added NUC472 and Nuvoton NuMaker support to high-profile RTOS projects like Mbed OS and Zephyr, implementing Ethernet, RNG, and a broad set of peripheral drivers. He combines hands-on hardware bring-up and FPGA/IC verification with software skills in C/C++, Python and MATLAB, and is known for translating low-level silicon quirks into robust system-level solutions.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering, GPA 4.0, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.), Electrical Engineering, GPA 4.0 at 國立臺灣科技大學
Chinese, English
Github Skills (34)
uart10
over-the-air10
realtime10
freertos10
zephyr-rtos10
c-programming10
ota10
c1110
spi10
microcontroller10
esp826610
c1710
i2c10
ethernet10
gpio10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-freertos
Dec 2018 - Sep 2021
DEPRECATED - See README.md
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:25 reviews, 50 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the development of embedded systems software for the Nuvoton Numaker-IoT-M487 board within the context of the Amazon FreeRTOS project. Their work included enhancing WiFi functionality by modifying the ESP8266 WiFi driver, adding features for key and certificate provisioning, and implementing OTA support. They also made modifications to core configuration files to optimize performance and adapt to changes in the FreeRTOS+TCP and OTA library versions.
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ARMmbed/mbed-os
Jul 2016 - Nov 2022
Arm Mbed OS is a platform operating system designed for the internet of things
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 239 commits, 46 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focused on adding and improving support for the NUC472 microcontroller within the mbed-os repository. Their contributions involved the integration of Ethernet and entropy functionality, including the implementation of an lwIP-based Ethernet interface, NUC472-specific network interface configurations, and support for stronger random number generation (RNG). Furthermore, the user addressed hardware-specific issues, such as correcting Ethernet interrupt statuses and optimizing AES hardware acceleration within the context of the embedded operating system.
kernelmbed-osoperating-systemlinuxmbed
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