Cliff L. Biffle
- Role
- 0x Engineer at Oxide Computer Company
- Location
- Berkeley, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Cliff L. Biffle
I have an unusual blend of deep technical abilities and robust people skills. I\'ve been…
Experience
0x Engineer
Jan 2020 — Present
Joined Oxide when the whole company could still fit in a conference room. There\'s a lot that happens before the \"main CPU\" can even power on - that\'s where I live. I worked out the strategy, chose the components, drafted and soldered the test boards, wrote the operating system (and the docs!), built the team, co-designed and implemented the platform secure boot architecture, debugged ONE MILLION I2C issues, and eventually shipped big racks of working servers with open-source firmware and no BIOS/UEFI. I also try to act as a resource across the company on: difficult hardware/firmware debugging problems, component selection (particularly in MCUs), safe and unsafe Rust, ARM assembly language and program verification, etc. I\'ve been heavily involved in steering the company culture, starting before I joined (I had suggestions on the interview process and the terms of the employment agreement). We\'re imperfect but doing pretty decent.
Skills
- Haskell
- Mentoring
- Firmware Bringup
- Using Science as a Verb
- Software Engineering
- Testing
- Acquiring New Skills & Expertise
- Embedded Systems
- Fault Isolation
- Java
- Microarchitectural Optimization
- Thinking Outside the Box
- Distributed Systems
- People Management
- Software Development
- Android
- Debugging
- Linux
- Experimental Design
- Rust
- Python
- Performance Tuning
- C++
- Functional Programming
- Team Building
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