Chris Freehill
Member Of Technical Staff at AMD
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Freehill is a seasoned embedded and systems software engineer with eight years of focused experience across firmware, Linux kernel/user space, and tools development, now serving as Member of Technical Staff at AMD in Austin. He has a track record of shipping low-level tooling and platform services—designing ROCm SMI and rocminfo, contributing to cluster management, and extending Linux perf and off-core event support on ARM and PPC. His background spans C/C++/Java/Python work in environments from Eclipse and MFC to secure code audits, and includes ARMv8 power-management firmware and performance modeling using LTTng. Comfortable moving between product, tooling and firmware layers, he blends deep systems curiosity with practical delivery and occasional forays into experimental programming topics outside his day job.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MBA Product Management and Marketing, MBA Product Management and Marketing at Texas McCombs School of BusinessMSEE BSEE Computer Engineering Parallelizing Compilers, MSEE BSEE Computer Engineering Parallelizing Compilers at Louisiana State University
Github Skills (16)
system-info10
trace10
portability9
sshfs8
opencl8
cuda8
gpu-programming8
documentation8
blas8
gpu7
oneapi7
roc6
amd6
ssh4
sftp4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ROCm/rocminfo
May 2018 - Mar 2021
ROCm Application for Reporting System Info
Contributions:16 releases, 14 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 10 months
rocmreportingsystem-info
ROCm/rocm_smi_lib
Oct 2017 - Mar 2021
ROCm SMI LIB
Contributions:29 releases, 217 commits, 114 PRs in 3 years 4 months
smisysadmintracerocm
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