Mulin Chao is a seasoned embedded systems leader with 11 years of experience and a long tenure at Nuvoton Technology Corporation, now serving as Deputy Director after leading its software department. He combines hands-on firmware and hardware integration expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the high-profile Zephyr RTOS, where he enhanced I2C/UART drivers and added board/device-tree support for Nuvoton NPCX microcontrollers—with proven program and project management skills. Educated in electrical control engineering at National Chiao Tung University, he brings a solid academic foundation to practical product development across IoT and MCU platforms. Known for bridging low-level driver work and team leadership, he’s comfortable shipping production-ready embedded features that unlock wake-up and target-mode capabilities on constrained hardware.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical Control Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical Control Engineering at National Chiao Tung University
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Control Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Control Engineering at 國立交通大學
Primary Git Repository for the Zephyr Project. Zephyr is a new generation, scalable, optimized, secure RTOS for multiple hardware architectures.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Contributions:712 reviews, 99 PRs, 785 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mulin primarily contributed to the Zephyr RTOS project, focusing on embedded systems development. Their work involved modifying I2C and UART drivers, specifically for Nuvoton's NPCX microcontrollers. The user also added support for wake-up capabilities and target mode functionality in I2C drivers. Furthermore, they implemented support for the npcx4m8f_evb board and the addition of device tree files for the NPCX4 series, indicating a strong focus on hardware integration.
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Mulin Chao - Deputy Director at Nuvoton Technology Corporation