Linus Liu
Software Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolLinus Liu is a seasoned firmware and UEFI BIOS expert with over 17 years of hands-on experience across Intel platforms from Calpella to Alder Lake, now serving as a Software Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies. He has deep EDK/EDK II expertise and a track record building OEM features, Android L osloader support, and platform bring-ups for Bay Trail, Skylake, Coffee Lake and more. At Intel he contributed subsystems such as Type-C, storage features, crashlog tooling and helped integrate Universal Payload Flat Device Tree support—work reflected in contributions to the prominent tianocore/edk2 open-source project. Known for debugging complex platform issues and leading BIOS development teams, he blends low-level system programming with pragmatic product delivery. Based in New Taipei, Taiwan, he holds a master’s in Electrical and Electronics Engineering and often surfaces non-obvious firmware interactions between bootloaders and device trees to accelerate hardware bring-up.
3 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Yuan Ze University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (6)
c1710
firmware10
uefi10
c1110
security8
python4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
tianocore/edk2
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
EDK II
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 32 PRs, 47 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Linus primarily contributed to the UEFI firmware development within the edk2 repository. Their commits demonstrate a focus on low-level system programming, including modifying code related to hard drive password security, Pyrite support, and the integration of a Flat Device Tree (FDT) for hardware description. They also updated the UefiPayloadPkg to include FDT support. This suggests a role involving hardware interaction, boot process modification, and device driver development.
uefipythonfirmwarec
LinusvPelt/edk2
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
EDK II
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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