Ievgen Ganakov
Firmware Development Team Lead at Intel Corporation
Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolIevgen Ganakov is a firmware development leader with over a decade of hands-on electronics and automation experience and three years focused on embedded firmware at Intel, now leading a firmware team in Gdańsk. He specializes in low-latency, power-efficient audio processing and secure, resource-constrained embedded software, bringing practical skills from PLC/SCADA, test engineering, and industrial automation into product-grade firmware. An active contributor to Sound Open Firmware, Ievgen implemented IPC4 support for keyword detection and large-blob handling—work that improved interoperability while preserving IPC3 compatibility. He pairs disciplined problem-solving and coding-for-security with a systems-level view of hardware enablement, and his background in photography hints at an attention to detail and composition that surfaces in precise, maintainable designs.
3 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Photography, Photography at Kiev Photography SchoolIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, Polish, Ukrainian
Github Skills (8)
c1710
firmware10
audio10
embedded10
c1110
sys10
dspic9
dspace9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
thesofproject/sof
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Sound Open Firmware
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:102 reviews, 9 commits, 20 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ievgen primarily focused on implementing and adapting IPC4 (Inter-Process Communication version 4) support within the Sound Open Firmware (SOF) project. Their contributions included adding IPC4 support to the keyword detection (KD) and key phrase buffer (KPB) modules, enhancing the system's communication capabilities. These changes involved modifying existing code to maintain backward compatibility with IPC3 while incorporating new notification structures and configuration methods. The user also made adjustments to module adapter to correctly manage the large blob processing.
firmwaremidiaudiodspsound
iganakov/sof
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024
Sound Open Firmware
Contributions:94 pushes, 61 branches in 2 years 2 months
midifirmwaresoundaudio
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