Tapan Shah
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Collins Aerospace
Frisco, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolTapan Shah is a Senior Principal Software Engineer and technical program leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building secure embedded firmware and UEFI-based platform software for servers and networking equipment. He currently leads a classified government program at Collins Aerospace with an active Top Secret clearance, and previously drove UEFI core architecture and secure-boot features across HPE ProLiant generations. His background includes low-level firmware, BSP bring-up, device drivers and diagnostics at Cisco and HPE, spanning Intel x86, ARM and AMD platforms as well as ASIC/FPGA integrations. An advocate for standardization and interoperability, he represented HPE at the UEFI Forum and led firmware debranding efforts for ODMs. He also contributes to the tianocore/edk2 project, enhancing UEFI Shell commands and user experience with features like enhanced protocol decoding and persistent memory support. Based in Frisco, Texas, he combines deep platform engineering expertise with program leadership and a track record of mentoring cross-functional teams to deliver secure, production-grade firmware.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at Gujarat UniversityMasters of Science Computer Engineering, Masters of Science Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Hindi, English, Gujarati
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Github contributions (2)
tianocore/edk2
Oct 2015 - Jun 2017
EDK II
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer
Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:27 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Tapan's contributions primarily involve modifying UEFI Shell commands to enhance functionality and add support for new features. They focused on updating the 'dh' command to decode more protocols, including EDID and GraphicsOutput. They also enhanced the 'memmap' and 'cls' commands, adding support for Persistent Memory in 'memmap' and expanding the 'cls' command to change the background and foreground colors, and incorporating more changes to improve user experience.
uefipythonfirmwarec
tianocore/edk2-archive
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Archive of old branches for EDK II
Contributions:1 commit in 1 day
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