Taylor Beebe
Firmware Engineer at Apple
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTaylor Beebe is a firmware engineer with eight years of experience building secure, cross-architecture embedded systems and firmware platforms. Now at Apple after four years in Microsoft’s Core OS team, Taylor designed and shipped a cross-architecture firmware memory protection used across Surface devices and contributed virtualization platforms for CI and driver development. An active EDK II contributor, Taylor has improved memory management, MMU handling, and added stack-check protections to harden open-source firmware. A former Marine with operational experience recovering sensitive equipment, Taylor pairs disciplined systems thinking with hands-on C/C++ and Python engineering to push firmware stability and security forward.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Williams College
Github Skills (16)
c1710
firmware10
memory-management10
arm10
uefi10
debug10
c1110
architecture9
computer-architecture9
architectures9
sys9
arch9
code-optimization9
embedded9
cpu-architecture9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tianocore/edk2
Jun 2021 - Apr 2024
EDK II
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 review, 12 PRs, 1 comment in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Taylor primarily contributes to the EDK2 firmware project by addressing memory management and system-level issues. They fixed potential vulnerabilities in memory allocation routines, refined memory region handling within the MMU logic, and refactored sections for better alignment with EDK2 standards. Their work also includes code style improvements and the incorporation of a stack check library to enhance the overall stability and security of the firmware.
uefipythonfirmwarec
TaylorBeebe/Roguelike
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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