Michael Tien
Firmware Architect at Lenovo
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Tien is a Firmware Architect based in Vancouver with over 30 years of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, circuit design, VLSI CAD, and Android and business software. He currently leads BMC firmware development for cloud service providers at Lenovo, specializing in OpenBMC and AMI solutions for the latest Intel platforms. Previously he designed hardware/software architectures, security features, and tooling across startups and gaming companies, co-founding an arcade hardware/software division and building animation, audio, and peripheral drivers. Comfortable bridging silicon and software, he brings deep firmware debug, verification, and cross-disciplinary orchestration skills that accelerate platform bring-up. His background in VLSI CAD and long tenure in both product and platform roles gives him a rare combination of low-level hardware insight and pragmatic system-level delivery.
10 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (27)
winusb9
kalman7
usb7
hal7
readable7
particle-filter6
filter6
notable6
container-image6
kalman-filter6
simulator6
ubuntu6
ros5
sdk5
cdc5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
MichaelTien8901/STM32WINUSB
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
Convert STM32 USB CDC to WINUSB Device with HAL library
Contributions:19 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 1 year 6 months
stm32usbcdchal-libraryusb-cdc
MichaelTien8901/michaeltien8901.github.io
Jun 2016 - May 2023
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
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