Alexander Chiang
alex@chizang.net
http://chizang.net/alex/blog/about/

2507 Flintridge Pl.
Fort Collins, CO 80521
(970) 988-2827

Summary
* Experienced Linux kernel developer
* Extensive experience enabling and delivering new hardware platforms
* Familiar with both upstream and enterprise distribution development processes
* Ability to coordinate across and work with large, globally-distributed teams


Hewlett-Packard / Business Critical Servers		05/2007 - Present
Linux kernel engineer
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Upstream work
* Wrote PCI slot detection module (pci_slot.ko)
* Added generic hotplug support to PCI subsystem
* Reviewed PCI patches from other upstream developers
* Debugged PCI hotplug issues reported by upstream users
* Refactorization and clean ups in the ACPI subsystem and drivers

Internal work
* Shipped Proliant DL785G6, Integrity BL860c/BL870c, and other platforms
* Debugged and fixed defects reported by internal QA team
* Supported enterprise distributions with feature backporting and defect fixing
* Developed and executed test plans for new platform and IO card support
* Mentored numerous peer engineers on upstream development processes
* Supported internal kernel team's build and development server


Hewlett-Packard / Business Critical Servers		11/2005 - 05/2007
Integrity Server hardware diagnostics
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* Designed and developed Linux userspace IA64 CPU architectural test tools
* Delivered project's major v2.0 release on-time and with high quality
* Championed and implemented multiple internal process improvements
  + Improved source code management system
  + Unified shared library architecture
  + Isolated build environments
  + Deployed and promoted internal wiki


Hewlett-Packard / Enterprise Unix Division		8/2002 - 11/2005
HP-UX kernel engineer
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* Led development on multiple large projects in the HAL subsystem
* Debugged defects across multiple subsystems as part of kernel triage team
* Designed and implemented test plans and tools as part of kernel test team
* Lead kernel engineer on first HP Integrity blade platform (BL60p)
* Delivered HP-UX 11i v2 Enterprise Release and four subsequent update releases


Hewlett-Packard / Business Critical Servers		8/2000 - 12/2000
Platform simulator, intern
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* Developed architectural simulators for PA-RISC and IA64 platforms
* Implemented chipset and processor components


Intel Corporation / Graphics Components Division	1/1999 - 8/1999
Architectural simulator, intern
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* Developed video capture engine on graphics card architectural simulator 
* Verified hardware functional implementation of video capture engine


Papers and Talks
* Western State College, guest lecturer, 2009
	CIS330: Where's the hardware?
		Linux PCI slots, a case study
	CIS391: Dude, I got a CS degree and all I can do is code!
		(non-obvious tips for success in the real world)

* Linux Plumbers Conf, 2008
	Physical PCI slots: A little bit goes a long way

* SuSE Labs Conf, 2008
	Physical PCI slots: A little bit goes a long way

* Western State College, guest lecturer, 2006
	CIS391: Itanium Servers and 3pm Naps
		(How to Stop Worrying and Love Working for the Man)

* US Patent 7,428,695
	System for Automatic Generation of Arbitrarily Indexed Hyperlinked Text


Education
* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	B.S., Computer Engineering,  2002