Willy Tu
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilly Tu is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with nine years of experience focused on embedded systems and firmware, particularly gBMC/OpenBMC distributions. He blends backend and DevOps expertise—integrating components like systemd, nftables, and BusyBox and tailoring boot/kernel/image behaviors—to deliver robust BMC solutions used in large-scale datacenter hardware. Based in Sunnyvale, he has a strong systems foundation from a Computer Engineering degree at UC Santa Barbara and early research work on high-frequency oscillators and PCB design. Willy’s background also includes building scalable observability pipelines and routing logic in Go and Python, showing his versatility across low-level firmware and cloud-native tooling. Colleagues describe him as quietly ambitious—he jokes about wanting to be a wizard, but his contributions to a widely-used open-source project show the kind of practical engineering magic he produces.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Chinese, English
Github Skills (12)
embedded10
systemd10
linux10
build-system10
openbmc10
sys10
networking10
yocto10
automation9
automations9
configuration-management9
python4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
openbmc/openbmc
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
OpenBMC Distribution
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:43 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Willy primarily contributed to the OpenBMC distribution by importing recipes and configurations from the gBMC project. Their work involved integrating various software components such as Busybox, systemd, iperf3, nftables, and sslh. The user also focused on setting up system configurations for gBMC, specifically related to networking, images, and kernel modifications. This included adjustments for boot processes and adding functionalities such as setting the firmware revision and adding dev/prod image types.
openbmcdistribution
ucsb-cs56-projects/cs56-games-maze
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 6 issues in 1 month
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