Chris Kay
Staff Software Engineer at Arm
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolChris Kay is a Staff Software Engineer at Arm with 14 years of experience specializing in low-level firmware for Arm architectures and increasingly in build and release engineering. He has deep hands-on expertise across Trusted Firmware-A, SCP-firmware and brief work on TF-RMM, contributing fixes for memory maps, AMU implementations and portability issues that improved compatibility with Arm Compiler 6. Comfortable on both high-performance processors and microcontrollers, he blends embedded bring-up skills with tooling: toolchains, build systems, CI and developer-focused release automation. Based in Cambridge, he combines practical firmware dev with strong interests in compiler and programming language theory, emulation and formal verification—bringing a rare mix of systems-level debug ability and release-process rigor.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at Kingston University
French, German, English, Scottish Gaelic
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Github Skills (16)
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embedded10
c-programming10
c1110
architectures10
sys10
architecture10
device-tree9
compiler-optimization9
cmake6
documentation5
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-software/SCP-firmware
Nov 2017 - Aug 2021
Read-only mirror of System Control Processor (SCP) firmware
Role in this project:
Back-end & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:1 release, 8 reviews, 224 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the firmware of the System Control Processor (SCP) by addressing code quality and portability issues. They fixed compilation errors related to const-qualifications, Python style, and strict-aliasing, as well as corrected ISO C violations. The user's contributions involved implementing features related to the Low-Level Library. Their work enhanced code quality and made the codebase compatible with Arm Compiler 6.
control-systemfirmwarescp
ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Read-only mirror of Trusted Firmware-A
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:67 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:The user, Chris Kay, primarily contributed to the low-level aspects of the Arm Trusted Firmware-A project. Their work focused on fixing memory map and counter-related issues, notably in areas like platform definitions and AMU (Activity Monitor Unit) implementations. The user also contributed to SGM/Juno platform support and enhanced the documentation and release notes. The commits demonstrate an expertise in embedded systems, board bring-up, and system-level firmware development for ARM architectures.
trustedread-onlyfirmwareembedded
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