Neal Liu
Assistant Manager at Aspeed Technology Inc
Hsinchu, Taiwan Province
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Top SchoolNeal Liu is an Assistant Manager and embedded software engineer with over a decade of experience specializing in ARM-based SoC firmware and platform security for the server industry. He currently leads BMC SoC SW/FW development at Aspeed, with deep hands-on expertise in ARMv8-A TrustZone, secure boot, and hardware cryptography integration. Neal has driven SoC validation, OTP and boot ROM designs, and maintained platform code across OP-TEE, Linux, U-Boot and OpenBMC, notably contributing platform-specific fixes for OP-TEE on Aspeed hardware. He combines low-level driver development (USB, crypto engines) with CI/Gerrit automation and CAVP compliance work, enabling secure, production-grade silicon. Based in Hsinchu, Taiwan, Neal pairs a Master’s in Social Networks/Data Processing with practical firmware craftsmanship, unusually bridging security research, open-source stewardship, and production cryptographic validation.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Social Networks / Data Processing, Master's Degree, Social Networks / Data Processing at National Cheng Kung University
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Github Skills (17)
architecture10
c1110
abstraction-layer10
c1710
sys10
arm10
embedded10
architectures10
op-tee10
hal10
cryptography8
jenkins6
jenkins-plugin6
jenkins-job-dsl6
malloc6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OP-TEE/optee_os
Mar 2022 - Apr 2022
Trusted side of the TEE
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 28 days
Contributions summary:Neal primarily contributed to the aspeed platform within the OP-TEE OS, focusing on hardware-specific features. They addressed issues related to the HACE hardware hash accelerator, including fixing build problems, resolving digest correctness, and controlling access to it from the secure world. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the platform initialization code to accommodate the hardware design specifics and made a check for the existence of FPU NEON. Their work involved modifying platform-specific code, including the usage of memory registers and addressing hardware specifics.
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Neal-liu/tools
Apr 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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