Minggui Cao
Software Engineer at Intel
Minhang District, Shanghai, China
Summary
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Top SchoolMinggui Cao is a seasoned software engineer with 8+ years specializing in virtualization, embedded systems and Linux on ARM and x86 platforms. He has deep hands‑on experience in hypervisor internals—contributing to the well-known ACRN project by improving multiboot/bootloader support, TSC emulation, MSR protections and interrupt handling. Strong in C/C++ with scripting in Bash/Python, he pairs low‑level driver and RTOS debugging (JTAG/Trace32) with performance tuning using perf/vtune and PMU analysis. At Intel he led real‑time profiling, FuSa PCI documentation and patentable innovations, and earned multiple internal awards for impactful fixes and customer support. Comfortable across the stack from boot code and VMCS changes to system tooling, he’s known as a dependable, creative problem solver who thrives on complex platform bring‑up and production hardening. Based in Shanghai, he brings a rare blend of mobile/telephony origins and modern virtualization expertise that helps bridge device firmware to cloud‑adjacent workloads.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Northwest Polytechnical University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
c1710
bootloader10
hyper10
hypervisor10
c1110
hyper-v10
vms10
assembly8
x868
acpi7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
projectacrn/acrn-hypervisor
Mar 2018 - Sep 2022
Project ACRN hypervisor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 148 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Minggui's contributions primarily revolve around enhancing the ACRN hypervisor, focusing on enabling and improving the boot process. They've added support for firmware and ramdisk as multiboot modules, refined the multiboot-related code, and enabled features like TSC-offset and TSC MSR emulation. The user also worked on security, adding MSR ops protection and modifying code related to interrupt handling. The code changes include modifications to the boot loader and VMCS, indicating a deep understanding of the hypervisor's internals.
hypervisoracrn
mgcao/acrn-hypervisor
Oct 2019 - Sep 2022
Project ACRN hypervisor
Contributions:61 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 11 months
hypervisoracrn
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