Jeff Brasen
System Software Manager at NVIDIA
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Brasen is a seasoned embedded systems software leader with over 15 years of experience building standards-compliant UEFI and system boot firmware for Arm datacenter platforms. Currently a System Software Manager at NVIDIA, he previously led multi-site teams at Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies to deliver UEFI/ACPI/SBSA-compliant firmware for Centriq™ server processors and drove the transition from proprietary firmware to open-source TianoCore-based implementations. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing fixes and new features to the widely used EDK II project—with strong program and people leadership, improving upstream rebasing cadence and cross-organizational processes. Known for pragmatic re-architecting of early boot paths and for upstreaming an AArch64 EBC VM, he bridges silicon, firmware, and standards communities to accelerate platform bring-up.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (9)
c1710
firmware10
uefi10
embedded10
c1110
sys10
sd-mmc10
acpi9
python8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tianocore/edk2
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
EDK II
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 36 commits, 9 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jeff's commits primarily focus on enhancing the UEFI firmware for the EDK2 project. They are adding and modifying code related to the SD/MMC host controller, including adding controller version defines and supporting more recent specifications. They are also involved in fixing potential null pointer access issues and improving the initialization of memory services within the DXE core. Additionally, the user has contributed to the Android boot image support by adding LoadFile2 for linux initrd and making improvements to the error handling.
uefipythonfirmwarec
NVIDIA/edk2-nvidia
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
NVIDIA EDK2 platform support
Contributions:4 reviews, 107 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 4 months
gpunvidiaedk2
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