Keng Cheah
Software Engineer at National Instruments
Malaysia
Summary
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SeniorKeng Cheah is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of deep firmware and low-level systems experience, currently driving embedded software work at National Instruments. He specializes in C and x86 assembly and has extensive hands-on expertise with AMI Core 8 legacy BIOS, Aptio EFI platforms, Intel Tiano, and Intel/American Arium ITP tools from roles at Intel and RadiSys. His background in electrical engineering informs a hardware-aware approach to firmware design, debugging, and platform bring-up across generations of PC firmware. Known for navigating legacy BIOS and modern EFI stacks alike, he brings practical experience upgrading and maintaining critical boot firmware in production environments. Based in Malaysia, he blends long-term corporate firmware development experience with a pragmatic, detail-oriented mindset that excels at root-cause analysis and system-level debugging.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (7)
linux-kernel9
kernel9
linux8
realtime8
startup3
u-boot2
libvirt2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ni/u-boot
Jun 2013 - May 2018
Contributions:40 commits in 5 years
ni/meta-ateccgen2
Jul 2023 - Apr 2024
Contributions:20 reviews, 1 branch, 7 comments in 9 months
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