Frans Hendriks
Sr. Software Engineer at ELTAN BV
Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolFrans Hendriks is a senior software engineer based in Arnhem with over 30 years of deep expertise in x86 firmware, BIOS/UEFI, coreboot, OpenBMC and embedded controller design. At ELTAN he applies low-level skills in assembly, C and firmware stacks—routinely touching Intel Slim Bootloader, edk2 and legacy Phoenix BIOS—to solve platform and security challenges. He has a longstanding practical focus on PC architecture and hardware interfaces, demonstrated by contributions to the high-profile coreboot project adding timer, DMA, APIC, SMBus and SPI support and improving boot-time display handling. Frans combines academic grounding in computer science with hands-on product experience dating back to Tulip Computers, making him comfortable across both legacy and modern firmware ecosystems. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, hardware-aware solutions that bridge silicon quirks and secure boot requirements.
7 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
ing, Computer Science, ing, Computer Science at Windesheimcarolus
Github Skills (7)
firmware10
embedded10
sys10
boot10
acpi10
i2c9
smbus9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
coreboot/coreboot
Jul 2018 - Aug 2022
Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. We don't handle Pull Requests.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:169 commits in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Frans contributed to the coreboot project, focusing on firmware development for embedded systems. Their work involved modifying and adding support for various hardware components, including configuring the i8254 timer, ISA DMA controller, local APIC, SMBus controller and SMBus i2c block writes. Furthermore, the user's contributions span across areas such as adding support for new SPI operations, configuring and verifying logo image and display output.
corebootfirmwarereviewpull-requestsbootloader
coreboot/blobs
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
mirror of the blobs repository containing redistributable binaries
Contributions:3 commits in 2 months
redistributablebinariesblobs
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