Yilun Xu
Staff Software Engineer at Intel Corporation
Hong Kong, China
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Top SchoolYilun Xu is a Staff Software Engineer based in Hong Kong with 11 years of professional experience and a master's in automation from Southeast University. He specializes in Linux OS development for device drivers, power/thermal management, and x86 virtualization (KVM/QEMU), and currently contributes as one of the maintainers for the Linux FPGA community at Intel. His career spans startups and large silicon companies—working on USB device controller IP, Android power management, and media-device firmware—which gives him a rare blend of low-level kernel expertise and practical product-focused engineering. Known for shipping robust platform solutions across SoC, tablet, and phone platforms, he pairs deep systems knowledge with a track record of sustaining complex open-source stacks. An interesting facet of his profile is fluency in both engineering and English from dual bachelor degrees, enabling cross-functional collaboration across global teams.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Master's degree, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Southeast UniversityBachelor’s Degree, First Degree: Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Second Degree: English, Bachelor’s Degree, First Degree: Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Second Degree: English at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Chinese, English
Github Skills (28)
linux10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
backport10
fpga10
windows-subsystem-for-linux10
upstream9
distro9
wsl29
manjaro9
subsystem9
zen8
busybox7
windows7
performance-tuning7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
OFS/linux-dfl
Nov 2019 - Jun 2021
Linux kernel driver for the Device Feature List framework for FPGA devices
Contributions:561 commits in 1 year 7 months
kernelkernel-driverlinuxlinux-kernellinux-kernel-driver
OFS/linux-dfl-backport
Dec 2019 - Jun 2021
Backport version of the linux-dfl (Device Feature List) kernel driver for FPGA devices. This is an out-of-tree driver, designed to be built, packaged, and installed as a stand-alone set of driver modules.
Contributions:101 commits in 1 year 6 months
kernelbackportstand-alonekernel-driverstand
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