Scott Chao
Senior Software Engineer at Dell Technologies
New Taipei, Taiwan
Summary
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Top SchoolScott Chao is a Senior Software Engineer based in New Taipei, Taiwan, with six years of embedded firmware and system bring-up experience and a recent role at Dell Technologies. He specializes in embedded controller and firmware development for Chromebook-class hardware, contributing to the widely used coreboot project by adding SPI ROM support, MIPI camera settings, ACPI tweaks, and Type-C port and keyboard function integrations. Progressing from Embedded Controller Engineer to Assistant Technical Manager and now senior engineering at Dell, he blends hands-on low-level coding with team leadership and hardware initialization expertise. With a Master's in Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, he brings a multidisciplinary perspective that helps bridge firmware, hardware, and product needs. An understated strength is his repeated contributions to coreboot device trees and ACPI—work that requires both deep platform knowledge and careful coordination with open-source ecosystems.
6 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Biomedical Engineering at 義守大學Master's degree, Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering, Master's degree, Bio-Industrial Mechatronics Engineering at 國立臺灣大學
Github Skills (11)
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sys8
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
coreboot/coreboot
Apr 2020 - May 2022
Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. We don't handle Pull Requests.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:25 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Scott primarily contributes to the coreboot project, focusing on firmware development for Chromebooks. Their work involves adding support for new hardware components, such as Winbond SPI ROMs and MIPI camera settings. They also update device tree configurations and configure Type-C port settings, indicating expertise in hardware initialization and system bring-up. Furthermore, they modify ACPI tables and add code for keyboard function keys, including mic mute and keyboard backlight toggle.
corebootfirmwarereviewpull-requestsbootloader
coreboot/chrome-ec
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
Contributions:176 commits in 3 years 1 month
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