Curtis Malainey
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCurtis Malainey is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in embedded firmware, audio integration, and pre-silicon I/O bring-up, currently based in Sunnyvale and working at Google. He has a strong track record in open-source embedded audio—contributing to the Sound Open Firmware project by correcting audio pipeline configurations and PCM channel setups—and has driven Linux kernel audio integration and tooling for architecture-agnostic projects. His background blends hardware interfacing and sensor work from roles at Garmin with networking algorithm experience from Arista, giving him a pragmatic systems-level perspective. A University of Alberta CompE alum, he pairs low-level engineering rigor with practical testing and validation processes used during pre-silicon firmware development. Outside work he’s a hardware enthusiast and avid outdoors explorer, a detail that often informs his hands-on, iterative approach to problem solving. Peers know him for meticulous code-level fixes that improve long-running open-source audio stacks and for bridging firmware with system-level validation.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science In Computer Engineering: Software Option Co-op, Bachelors of Science In Computer Engineering: Software Option Co-op at Faculty of Engineering, University of AlbertaPastoral Studies, Pastoral Studies at Vanguard College
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
dspic10
firmware10
topology10
audio10
sys10
embedded10
dspace10
m49
sounds9
m4a9
arduino-ide6
arduino6
decimal6
varchar6
php6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
thesofproject/sof
Sep 2018 - Jan 2023
Sound Open Firmware
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:1183 reviews, 237 commits, 244 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Curtis primarily focused on modifying and correcting the configuration of audio pipelines within the Sound Open Firmware (SOF) repository. Their work involved updating and correcting comments in the topology files, ensuring the media graphs accurately reflected the code and fixing copy-paste errors. A significant portion of the user's contributions centered on adjusting and refining PCM capabilities and configurations across various audio pipelines, specifically modifying channel configurations.
firmwaremidiaudiodspsound
CMPUT301F16T13/ThunderCab
Sep 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:9 PRs, 91 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months
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