Robbie Zhang
Engineering Manager, Core Platform BringUp
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRobbie Zhang is an engineering manager in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of firmware and platform bring-up experience, currently leading Core Platform BringUp at Apple. He combines deep low-level expertise—from BIOS and UEFI across Intel generations to coreboot work enabling Intel WiFi SAR and SGX for ChromeOS—with hands-on leadership and fast-learning pragmatism. His career spans Intel and Apple roles where he bridged silicon, firmware, and system software to get complex platforms booting reliably. An active contributor to the well-known coreboot project, he has solved tricky build issues and implemented ACPI and SGX initialization plumbing that few application engineers encounter. Known for being result-oriented and collaborative, he brings both technical depth and practical team leadership to system bring-up challenges.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Software Engineering, Master, Software Engineering at San José State UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
coreboot/coreboot
Jul 2015 - Feb 2017
Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. Synced every hour. We don't handle Pull Requests.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:31 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Robbie primarily contributes to the coreboot project by implementing and refining features related to Intel's WiFi and SGX technologies within the context of ChromeOS. Their work involves modifying low-level system code, including ACPI table generation for WiFi SAR configuration and integrating SGX initialization steps. Additionally, the user fixed build issues and added utilities, like generating random numbers, for more advanced features like SGX and PRMRR.
corebootfirmwarereviewpull-requestsbootloader
mtk09422/chromiumos-third_party-coreboot
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:14 commits in 2 months
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