Liam Girdwood
Principal Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Dunfermline, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolLiam Girdwood is a Principal Software Engineer with 15+ years of deep expertise in embedded Linux, audio systems and kernel architecture, currently leading Intel’s Linux audio driver, DSP firmware and tooling efforts. He architected and developed core subsystems such as ALSA System-on-Chip (ASoC) and the kernel voltage regulator framework, and now drives Sound Open Firmware (SOF) adoption across Chrome, Android and Linux clients. A long-standing maintainer and community leader in the ALSA audio ecosystem, he blends low-level driver work with firmware toolchains, virtualization and ML inference on audio DSPs. He has a proven track record of upstreaming complex platform features and integrating cross-OS audio capabilities, including adding TensorFlow support to SOF for low-power inference. A regular speaker at major Linux conferences, Liam pairs practical product delivery with open-source stewardship and a background in founding and scaling an embedded Linux consultancy. Based in Dunfermline, Scotland, he brings rare depth across kernel, firmware and system-level audio engineering that often surfaces as tooling and virtualization innovations rather than just device drivers.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh Campus
Github Skills (56)
smartphone10
fastboot10
kernel10
xiaomi10
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android10
tablet10
magisk10
lineageos10
linux-kernel9
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distro8
otter8
alsa8
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
omap-audio/audio-test
Jun 2011 - Oct 2012
Contributions:57 commits in 1 year 3 months
ubuntustudio-kernel/ubuntu-precise-lowlatency
Jul 2011 - Feb 2012
Contributions:997 commits in 6 months
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