Ed Tanous
Principal Firmware Architect at NVIDIA
Pleasanton, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEd Tanous is a Principal Firmware Architect with 11 years of engineering and leadership experience building firmware and backend systems across industry leaders including NVIDIA, Google, AWS Elemental, and Intel. He combines deep embedded and system-level expertise—shaped by a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering—with a history of technical leadership and hands-on software delivery. Ed has contributed to high-profile open-source infrastructure like OpenBMC, focusing on backend integration, packaging, and system architecture to keep platform services current and maintainable. His career spans product-focused startups and large-scale enterprise teams, reflecting an ability to translate complex hardware-software requirements into reliable firmware and service stacks. Based in Pleasanton, California, he brings both entrepreneurial experience from founding a medical-app startup and a proven track record of evolving platform dependencies and integrations at scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oregon State University
Github Skills (10)
c-language10
openbmc10
cprogramming-language10
yocto10
systemd9
embedded8
webui8
sys8
json7
python5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
openbmc/openbmc
Nov 2017 - Dec 2022
OpenBMC Distribution
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:81 commits, 1 PR, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributes to the OpenBMC project by implementing and modifying backend components. Their work includes adding recipes for building and packaging webui and bmcweb, which are crucial for the system's functionality. They have also focused on system integration by updating package groups to include new services and removing deprecated ones, and by updating dependencies. Furthermore, the user demonstrates an understanding of system architecture by making changes to accommodate new dependencies and removing others.
openbmcdistribution
edtanous/redfish_to_grpc
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
Contributions:10 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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