Nicolin Chen - Linux Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Nicolin Chen

Linux Software Engineer at NVIDIA

Vancouver, Washington, United States

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Nicolin Chen is a Linux software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience developing and maintaining kernel-level drivers for SoC platforms, currently working on Tegra-based products at NVIDIA. He is an upstream Linux kernel maintainer for Freescale/i.MX sound drivers and has contributed significant fixes and features to the mainline kernel—particularly in IOMMU and ACPI subsystems for the torvalds/linux tree. His background spans embedded audio, DMA, and power/performance work across Freescale, NVIDIA, and research devices, with a track record of stabilizing BSP releases and resolving critical runtime bugs. Nicolin combines deep low-level systems expertise (U-Boot, kernel bring-up, device drivers) with practical product delivery on consumer platforms like the Shield tablet. He holds advanced training in computer engineering and has repeatedly bridged vendor BSP work with upstream open-source contributions, an uncommon blend that speeds product integration while improving the Linux ecosystem.

10 years of coding experience

6 years of employment as a software developer

San José State University

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at East China University of Science and Technology

English, Japanese, Chinese

Github Skills (7)

c1710

c1110

linux-kernel10

iommu10

acpi10

virtualization9

driver9

Programming languages (2)

CASL

Github contributions (5)

torvalds/linux

Jan 2023 - Jan 2023

Linux kernel source tree

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer & Systems Engineer

Contributions:1 commit in 1 day

Contributions summary:Nicolin primarily contributed to the Linux kernel, focusing on the IOMMU and ACPI subsystems. Their work involved fixing bugs, optimizing existing code, and implementing new features like support for the CANWBS memory access flag in ACPI/IORT and IOMMU_GET_HW_INFO. They also added support for virtualization of devices using IOMMU. These contributions are centered around low-level system programming and hardware interaction.

kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source

nicolinc/iommufd

Dec 2021 - Mar 2025

Contributions:763 pushes, 349 branches, 15 comments in 3 years 3 months

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