Device driver, firmware, system software developer. Open source contributor, Linux enthusiast. Worked in several Taiwanese consumer electronics companies, a big multinational corporation and a Silicon Valley startup.

Software Developer @ Mobile P2P Networking Stack, Zero configuration VPN From March 2010 to March 2012 (2 years 1 month) Linux Consultant @ Embedded Linux training and consulting. From July 2009 to October 2009 (4 months) Organizer @ I helped organize and attempted realtime English to Mandarin translation at the FreedomHEC Taipei 2009 conference: http://lwn.net/Articles/337314/ From May 2009 to June 2009 (2 months) Set-Top Box Developer @ Set-Top Box Device Drivers, DVR Engine with Time Shift Buffer, JVM Integration, Embedded Linux development support, Manufacturing Test software support. Linux platform "Acting Technical Lead" for an MHP set-top-box with two DVB-C and two DVB-T tuners at Motorola Taiwan Technology Center. Part time Mercurial, TWiki, Trac server administration. From September 2006 to December 2008 (2 years 4 months) Software Developer @ IPMI Server monitoring software and BIOS update utilities under Linux. Contributed some patches to the 'flashrom' utility in coreboot (a.k.a. LinuxBIOS). From January 2006 to July 2006 (7 months) Firmware Developer @ LCDTV firmware on the "count your stack use by the byte" 8051 microcontroller beloved by Taiwanese engineers. Contact window for the German customer in that ODM project. LCD analyzer and TV Signal Generator automation. Just-in-time, next to the assembly line firmware update support -- lots of fun. Collaborated with Microsoft's eHOME department on an exploratory hardware project that combined a TV with a Set-Top Box. My manager was the (in)famous computer virus author CIH, learned a lot about the x86 MMU, protected mode and embedded Linux tricks from him. From April 2003 to April 2004 (1 year 1 month)

BA, Business Administration @ Soochow University, Taiwan From 2005 to 2010 High School @ Chih Jen Vocational School From 2000 to 2001 HSNU From 1998 to 2000 Scott Tsai is skilled in: Device Drivers, Linux, Microcontrollers, Television, Set Top Box, Kernel, DVB, Linux Kernel, Embedded Systems, Embedded Linux, Python, Digital TV, JavaScript, Embedded Software, Git