Jiafei Pan
Team Lead And Staff Software Engineer at NXP acquires Freescale Semiconductor
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolJiafei Pan is a Team Lead and Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years driving embedded firmware and RTOS support at NXP (formerly Freescale), specializing in low-level boot, driver, and platform bring-up for i.MX and LS1/LS10 SoCs. He blends hands-on expertise—contributing to prominent open-source projects like ARM Trusted Firmware and Zephyr—with leadership responsibilities steering cross-functional engineering teams. His work includes complex linker and boot-mode changes to enable BL2 in XIP, aarch64 driver adaptations, and device-tree/timer/GPIO integrations that directly enable production hardware. Based in Chaoyang District, Beijing, he pairs a strong academic foundation from Beihang University with practical R&D experience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Notably, his contributions have improved mainline support for multiple NXP evaluation boards and cores such as Cortex-A53, reflecting both depth in silicon-level software and a commitment to upstream open-source collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Science and Engineering at Beihang University
Github Skills (30)
bootloader10
architecture10
firmware10
embedded-language10
c1110
microcontroller10
zephyr10
c1710
i2c10
device-tree10
low-level-programming10
rtos10
device-driver10
sys10
arm10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware
Mar 2018 - Oct 2022
Read-only mirror of Trusted Firmware-A
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 5 PRs, 109 comments in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jiafei's contributions primarily focused on supporting the Trusted Firmware-A (TF-A) project, particularly related to NXP's LS1043A and LS1028A platforms. They introduced and refined the support for LS1043ARDB board and LS1028A and LS1046A SoC and board support. Their work involved modifications to linker scripts, and driver code to incorporate features like executing BL2 in XIP memory and configuring the boot mode, demonstrating expertise in low-level firmware development.
trustedread-onlyfirmwareembedded
zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr
Apr 2021 - Apr 2025
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:371 reviews, 80 PRs, 436 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Jiafei primarily contributed to the Zephyr RTOS project, focusing on adding support for NXP i.MX platforms, specifically related to timer and GPIO functionalities. Their work included adding device tree nodes for various peripherals, such as GPT and TPM counters, and enabling ENET support on several i.MX boards. Additionally, the user addressed build issues, fixed documentation errors, and integrated improvements for the i.MX93 and other board configurations within the Zephyr ecosystem.
bluetooth-lereal-timezephyrsecuregit-repository
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