Minsu Kim
Senior Firmware Engineer at AMD
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMinsu Kim is a Senior Firmware Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in embedded systems, GPU firmware, and power management for data center and graphics products. Currently at AMD, he develops off-chip firmware and diagnostic suites for GPU power features and contributes to the ROCm ecosystem. His background includes designing multithreaded C/C++ firmware for RF routers at Evertz and hands-on hardware bring-up, chipset integration, and peripheral interfacing. Minsu blends academic research in machine learning and network optimization with practical CUDA-based HPC experience from Korea University, enabling pragmatic performance tuning on heterogeneous platforms. He is comfortable navigating cross-functional agile teams and mentoring junior engineers while translating datasheets and schematics into robust, production-ready firmware. An often-overlooked strength is his dual focus on low-level performance optimization and higher-level system diagnostics, which helps accelerate root-cause analysis in complex hardware-software stacks.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering at University of TorontoMaster of Applied Science - MASc, Computer Networks, Master of Applied Science - MASc, Computer Networks at Toronto Metropolitan University
English, Korean
Github Skills (10)
assembly10
amd9
blas9
matrix-multiplication9
hip9
machine-learning8
dependency-free5
deep-learning4
cpp3
neural-network3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kminsu1204/TorTrafficClassification
May 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
kminsu1204/TestingCode
May 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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