Ilya Smirnov
Firmware Engineer at IBM
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIlya Smirnov is a firmware engineer with nine years of experience designing and developing embedded software and systems, currently based in Austin, Texas and working at IBM. His background in electrical and electronics engineering informs a hands-on approach to firmware, electronics, signal processing, and automated control systems, with early roles spanning power system simulation and software internships. At IBM he progressed from intern to full-time firmware developer, demonstrating sustained domain expertise in low-level code and hardware-software integration. Ilya enjoys algorithmic and logical problem solving, bringing that rigor to debugging and performance tuning in constrained embedded environments. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who blends theoretical understanding with practical firmware delivery.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Iowa State UniversityAssociate's degree, Pre-Engineering, Associate's degree, Pre-Engineering at Des Moines Area Community College
English, Russian, Ukrainian, German
Github Skills (25)
bootloader10
ppc64le10
buildroot10
firmware10
software-update10
overlay10
rockchip10
makefile10
power-systems10
openpower10
flash10
u-boot10
vms10
packaging9
ansible3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
IlyaSmirnov91/op-build
Aug 2017 - Feb 2024
Buildroot overlay for Open Power
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 14 branches in 6 years 6 months
buildrootpoweroverlay
ibm-op-release/pnor
Mar 2018 - Oct 2020
Packaging scripts for flash images.
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs in 2 years 6 months
packagingflash
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