Chuck Coffing
Staff Engineer at DigitalOcean
Roseburg, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChuck Coffing is a Staff Engineer with 14+ years crafting high-performance, secure system software across embedded devices, virtualization, and storage. He has led architecture at startups competing with billion-dollar firms, streamed global TV before mainstream OTT, and shipped Linux firmware that reached BestBuy and Amazon. Deep expertise spans low-level C/C++ and assembly, filesystems, device drivers, FEC and deduplication, full-disk encryption, and observability with DTrace/BPF. A pragmatic engineer and patent-holder, he’s contributed to niche open-source projects like the ELKS embeddable Linux kernel subset to harden legacy 8086 systems. Based in Roseburg, Oregon, he pairs rigorous MIT training with hands-on hardware hacking—often squeezing maximum performance from constrained platforms.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics, and Humanities
Github Skills (10)
c1710
emu808610
kernel10
c1110
embedded-linux10
assembler9
assembly9
debug8
system-calls8
debugging8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ghaerr/elks
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset - Linux for 8086
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 40 commits, 50 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Chuck primarily focused on code cleanup, bug fixes, and enhancements to the ELKS operating system, an embeddable Linux Kernel Subset. Contributions include correcting whitespace and spelling errors, removing dead stores, and error-checking system calls. They also addressed several potential security vulnerabilities and improved the robustness of the system by correcting various functions.
kernel8086linuxsubsetembedded-linux
ccoffing/OcherBook
Jul 2015 - Oct 2019
Open-source replacement Kobo firmware
Contributions:2 PRs, 114 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 3 months
kobofirmwareatmeltasmotaembedded
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