Yang Jie
Senior System Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYang Jie is a Senior System Software Engineer with 12 years in semiconductors and a Master’s in Computer Architecture from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, now based in Portland, Oregon. He specializes in embedded software, device drivers, embedded Linux, DSPs and SoC design, and has driven Chrome OS infrastructure work across virtualization, graphics, AI and PnP at Intel. A long-time contributor and architect on Sound Open Firmware (SOF), he has made impactful kernel and firmware changes—ranging from scheduler rewrites to configurable audio pipelines—visible in both upstream Linux and the high-profile thesofproject/sof repo. Yang blends deep low-level systems expertise with practical cross-platform audio stacks (GStreamer/PulseAudio/ALSA) and a pragmatic “toy room” approach to experimentation that yields robust production fixes.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Architeture, A, Master, Computer Architeture, A at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Github Skills (12)
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algorithms9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thesofproject/sof
Dec 2015 - Nov 2021
Sound Open Firmware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 271 reviews, 590 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Yang primarily focused on improving the audio firmware, specifically addressing typos and configuration issues within the topology files. They fixed typos, modified widget types, and made the MCLK configurable for testing purposes. In addition to minor bug fixes, they implemented support for various system components and added volume control for several pipelines. They also undertook a large series of updates to the low level scheduler to align scheduling with different architectures.
firmwaremidiaudiodspsound
keyonjie/sof
Jun 2018 - Mar 2025
Sound Open Firmware
Contributions:623 pushes, 88 branches, 4 tags in 6 years 9 months
midifirmwaresoundaudio
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