Nhi Van Pham
Principal Engineer at Ampere
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Top SchoolNhi Van Pham is a Principal Engineer with a decade of embedded and firmware experience, currently leading firmware, bootloader, driver and manageability development for ARM64 server platforms at Ampere. She has substantial hands-on expertise in UEFI/EDK II—contributing upstream fixes and platform support, secure boot, ACPI and SMBIOS work, and implementing RTC/I2C and RNG support for Ampere’s Mt. Jade—demonstrating both low-level systems skill and open-source stewardship. Her background includes porting FreeRTOS BSP drivers for automotive ARM Cortex-A53 SoCs, giving her deep familiarity with SoC peripherals, real-time constraints, and cross-platform compatibility. Based in Ho Chi Minh City with an EEE degree, she blends practical device-driver craftsmanship with platform-level architecture and a track record of optimizing firmware for new hardware.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Ho Chi Minh University of Technology
English, Vietnamese
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Github Skills (21)
real-time-clock10
uefi10
architecture10
firmware10
c-programming10
edk210
c1110
c1710
i2c10
sys10
embedded10
architectures10
rtc10
acpi10
configuration-management9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tianocore/edk2-platforms
Dec 2020 - Sep 2022
EDK II sample platform branches and tags
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:40 reviews, 10 commits, 25 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Nhi contributed significantly to the EDK II sample platform for Ampere Computing's Mt. Jade platform, specifically adding support for the PCF85063 real-time clock (RTC). This involved implementing a new library to read and write the RTC, interacting with I2C for timekeeping functionality. The user also added and configured ACPI tables, including DSDT, SPCR, and others, and implemented a platform information screen to be used by the platform. Further contributions included adding support for random number generation and a configuration screen.
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tianocore/edk2
Jan 2021 - Sep 2022
EDK II
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 13 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nhi primarily contributes to the EDK2 project, focusing on firmware development related to UEFI. Their contributions involve implementing and modifying low-level system functions, such as time management and ACPI table handling. The user also addresses platform-specific issues and enhances compatibility across various ARM platforms by fixing existing code and adding support for new hardware features. Furthermore, the user demonstrates experience with secure boot and SMBIOS implementations within the UEFI environment.
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