Tristan Hsieh
Social Studies Teacher at Plano East Sr High School
Richardson, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Hsieh is a linguistics graduate from the University of Texas at Austin who blends language expertise with practical software and firmware experience. With 11 years of diverse work experience, he has taught social studies and Mandarin, worked as an implementation analyst, and contributed to low-level embedded firmware for coreboot on MediaTek SoCs. He programs in JavaScript and has experience with tools like Phaser and Jupyter Notebook, while also handling MMU, watchdog, PMIC and SPI driver work on IoT platforms—an uncommon crossover between classroom instruction and chipset-level engineering. Based in Richardson, Texas, Tristan brings strong communication skills from teaching and bilingual ability in Mandarin to technical collaboration and documentation. He’s comfortable moving between pedagogy, customer-facing implementation work, and hands-on firmware development, making him adaptable in education, consulting, and embedded systems roles.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Linguistics, 3.90, Bachelor's degree, Linguistics, 3.90 at University of Texas at Austin
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (8)
embedded10
sys10
boot10
spi9
gpio9
timer8
timers8
mmu7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
coreboot/coreboot
May 2018 - Aug 2019
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:51 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Tristan primarily worked on low-level firmware development for a coreboot project. Their contributions included refactoring and sharing code for timers, watchdog timers, MMU operations, PMIC wrappers, and SPI drivers across different MediaTek SoCs. The user also added support for a reference board using the MediaTek MT8183 SoC, integrating features like the watchdog timer, GPIO configuration for ChromeOS, and initializations of the USB and eMMC controllers.
corebootfirmwarereviewpull-requestsbootloader
mtk09422/chromiumos-third_party-mediatek-datool
Nov 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 issue in 6 months
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