Tien Loh
Senior Staff Software Engineer at StarFive Technology Co., Ltd.
Penang, Malaysia
Summary
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Top SchoolTien Loh is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over 18 years of embedded and firmware engineering experience, currently leading OpenBMC architecture and delivery at StarFive in Penang. He has deep expertise in bootloaders, ARM Trusted Firmware and UEFI for Intel SoC FPGAs, and has driven Linux distro and Yocto SDK efforts for RISC-V developer kits. Tien blends low-level platform bring-up (DDR, MMC, EMAC PHY) with systems leadership—having led teams from FPGA validation to customer-ready images and shipping firmware upgrades, KVM and MCTP features. An active contributor to the ARM Trusted Firmware ecosystem for Stratix 10, he pairs kernel and driver upstreaming experience with scalable build-and-test infrastructure design. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often bridges silicon, firmware and Linux stacks to turn complex hardware requirements into maintainable, upstream-friendly solutions.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Universiti Sains Malaysia
Github Skills (9)
fpga10
dd10
embedded10
sys10
mmc9
soc9
c119
firmware9
c179
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware
Feb 2019 - May 2020
Read-only mirror of Trusted Firmware-A
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 18 PRs, 26 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tien focused on low-level firmware development for the Intel Stratix 10 SoC FPGA platform. Their contributions centered on initializing and configuring the memory controller (DDR), adding support for BL2 and BL31, and integrating various platform-specific services. The user also addressed several bugs in the MMC stack and the Designware MMC driver. Furthermore, they implemented EMAC PHY initialization.
trustedread-onlyfirmwareembedded
altera-opensource/edk2-platforms-socfpga
May 2019 - May 2021
Contributions:25 commits in 2 years 1 month
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