Wonkyu Kim
Senior Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWonkyu Kim is a senior firmware engineer with over 15 years of hands-on experience bringing up SoC platforms, building secure boot ROMs and bootloaders, and debugging low-level systems across Linux, Android, ThreadX and proprietary RTOS environments. He has led platform stability and board bring-up efforts at Intel, Broadcom and Motorola, with deep expertise in ARM architectures, TrustZone, pre-silicon emulation (HAPS/CHIPIT/Palladium) and JTAG/ETM-based debugging. His work spans the full stack from assembly and kernel-level code to higher-level device management and FOTA systems, and he has designed secure boot and runtime services for multi-core ARM platforms. An active contributor to coreboot-related firmware for Intel Tiger Lake platforms, he demonstrates practical mastery of hardware initialization, GPIO/pinmux and hybrid storage/x2apic configurations. Known for efficient delivery, strong cross-team communication and process improvements, he combines a pragmatic engineering style with a curiosity for pre-silicon tooling and security integration. Located in Hillsboro, OR, he pairs global telecom roots with modern platform engineering at scale.
7 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Telecommunication & Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Telecommunication & Information Engineering at Korea Aerospace University
English, Korean
Github Skills (9)
firmware10
gpio10
embedded10
pcie10
sys10
boot10
x8610
acpi9
sata9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
coreboot/coreboot
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Read-only mirror of https://review.coreboot.org/coreboot.git. Synced every hour. We don't handle Pull Requests.
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / Firmware Engineer
Embedded Systems Engineer / Firmware EngineerContributions:69 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Wonkyu's contributions primarily revolve around modifying and configuring firmware for the coreboot project, specifically focusing on Intel Tiger Lake (TGL) and related platforms. Their work includes enabling various hardware components like SATA, display ports, and MIPI cameras, and configuring related GPIO settings and pin muxes. The user also updated interrupt settings and enabled hybrid storage mode and added support for the x2apic mode. The user's commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the hardware configuration and low-level system initialization processes required for the coreboot firmware.
corebootfirmwarereviewpull-requestsbootloader
coreboot/depthcharge
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
mirror of https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform/depthcharge/
Contributions:5 commits in 3 months
azerothcorelinuxchromelibuvchromium
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