Yong Zhi
System Engineer at Intel Corporation
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYong Zhi is a seasoned system engineer with 12+ years of embedded and multimedia systems experience, currently at Intel after a decade working on OMAP platforms and mobile devices. He specializes in audio, video, camera and HDMI subsystems, contributing upstream to ALSA, Linux media and Sound Open Firmware—adding codec and amplifier support and configuring complex audio pipelines for Jasper Lake and Tiger Lake. Practical and accountable ("if you break it, you own it"), he combines deep hardware-software integration skills with real-world kernel and firmware contributions visible across Patchwork and prominent open-source repos. Based in Dallas with a Master’s in Computer Engineering, he brings a pragmatic engineering ethos and a long track record of shipping platform features that bridge silicon, firmware and Linux.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Computer Engineering, Master, Computer Engineering at University of HoustonBachelor, The controls, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor, The controls, Electrical Engineering at Shandong University
Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (9)
firmware10
audio10
embedded10
dspic10
sys10
dspace10
i2s9
bluetooth-le8
bluetooth8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thesofproject/sof
Apr 2019 - Dec 2022
Sound Open Firmware
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:101 reviews, 44 commits, 106 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Yong primarily contributes to the Sound Open Firmware project by developing and modifying topology files. These files configure audio pipelines and hardware configurations for various platforms, including Jasper Lake and Tiger Lake. The user added support for new codecs (like RT1015 and ALC5682), speaker amplifiers (MAX98360a), and Bluetooth audio offload. Their work involved defining pipelines, DAI configurations, and PCM settings to enable audio functionalities on different hardware.
firmwaremidiaudiodspsound
yongzhi1/linux
Dec 2019 - Mar 2020
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
kernelkernel-sourcelinuxlinux-kernelbusybox
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