Okash Khawaja
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolOkash Khawaja is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience specializing in Intel architecture, virtualization, and Linux kernel development, currently focused on Android kernel and boot firmware at Google. He brings deep low-level expertise in MMU programming, interrupt controllers, assembly, and hypervisor work, with a track record of upstream Linux kernel contributions. Past roles include boot firmware and coreboot/LinuxBoot bring-up at Facebook and embedded systems and power/crypto work for ARM devices at TomTom, demonstrating breadth across cloud, device, and firmware stacks. Notably, he contributed Cortex-X1 support and errata work to the Trusted Firmware-A project and has fixed and upstreamed eBPF kernel bugs, showing both hardware-aware systems programming and practical open-source stewardship. Based in Sunnyvale with roots in the UK, he combines production-grade engineering at hyperscalers with hands-on firmware and security-minded fixes.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at National University of Computer and Emerging SciencesBeaconhouse School System
Urdu, Sindhi, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
assembly10
hardware-interface10
firmware10
sys10
assembler10
arm10
embedded10
caching9
security9
multithreading9
cachemanager9
linux-device-driver6
lua6
chess6
zerobrane6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ARM-software/arm-trusted-firmware
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Read-only mirror of Trusted Firmware-A
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Okash primarily contributed to the Trusted Firmware-A project, focusing on low-level system programming and hardware-specific configurations for ARM-based systems. Their contributions include adding support for the Cortex-X1 CPU, including the addition of assembly code, header files and handling of its specific CPU registers. They implemented workarounds for several Cortex-X1 errata, demonstrating a deep understanding of hardware limitations. The user also addressed a security vulnerability and made changes to the cache operations.
firmware
bytefire/QuantRecipes
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Contributions:25 commits in 1 month
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