Jordan Hargrave
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolJordan Hargrave is a Senior Software Engineer in Austin with 26 years of deep systems and kernel expertise, currently contributing to Apple after a long tenure at Dell. He specializes in Linux and OpenBSD kernel development, low-level x86/ARM assembly, firmware for power management, and systems management tooling (SNMP, IPMI), and he maintained the widely used biosdevname utility. Jordan has contributed core OpenBSD components like an ACPI AML parser and Softraid RAID6, published on demand-based CPU scaling, and frequently presented at systems conferences—a blend of practical firmware engineering and open-source stewardship. His experience spans embedded ARM microcode, cross-platform system utilities, kernel mailing-list patches, and emulator development, reflecting a rare ability to move between hardware-facing code and system-level software.
26 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Software Engineering, Masters, Software Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinOlympicBachelors, Math/Computer Science, Bachelors, Math/Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (26)
udev10
bootloader9
dbus9
bios9
boot9
ipmitool9
openbmc8
moto8
linux8
kernel6
html6
internet-explorer6
enclosure6
google-chrome6
css6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dell/biosdevname
Oct 2009 - Mar 2016
Udev helper for naming devices per BIOS names
Contributions:77 commits, 1 comment in 6 years 5 months
biosudev
jharg/kiwiread
Jun 2013 - Oct 2014
Contributions:34 commits in 1 year 4 months
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