Jake Garver
Senior Software Engineer, Tegra at NVIDIA
Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Garver is a seasoned senior software engineer and architect with over 8 years in high-performance systems and a MS in Computer Engineering, currently shaping Tegra platform software at NVIDIA. He has a deep networking and embedded systems pedigree—leading API/UI and microservice-driven switch projects at Cumulus/NVIDIA and modernizing network OS interfaces at Extreme—with a strong bias for test-driven, idempotent, and developer-friendly designs. Jake combines low-level firmware expertise (contributing bug fixes and robustness improvements to the widely used EDK II UEFI project) with full-stack delivery across Linux, Python, C, and RESTful APIs. Known for quickly absorbing new technologies and solving tricky platform problems, he repeatedly translates complex domain knowledge into pragmatic, incremental roadmaps that ship. Beyond architecture, he’s a hands-on coder and mentor who drives reliability and ease-of-use into networking and embedded products.
8 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Engineering and Science, MS, Computer Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University
Github Skills (11)
c1710
firmware10
debugging10
uefi10
embedded10
debug10
c1110
sys10
arm9
makefile8
python7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tianocore/edk2
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
EDK II
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 2 commits, 4 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Jake primarily contributes to the EDK II project by fixing bugs and improving the robustness of the firmware code. Their commits involve correcting code related to stack checks, addressing dependency issues in build scripts, and correcting offsets during code relocation for different processor architectures (AArch64). The user also corrects issues related to debug messages and macro definitions for specific components within the firmware, demonstrating a deep understanding of the codebase.
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NVIDIA/edk2-nvidia-non-osi
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
NVIDIA EDK2 non-OSI licensed content
Contributions:5 PRs, 47 pushes, 46 branches in 2 years 7 months
licensednvidiagpuosiedk2
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