Alex Tzonkov Email & Phone Number

California, United States

PMTS Software Developement Engineer

Folsom, California, United States

I manage a team of talented software engineers, developing code used to validate Intel's silicon.

Folsom, California, United States

Folsom, California, United States

Owned architecture and developing content infrastructure for a compiler based validation framework using the LLVM tool chain. Led the organization’s Agile transformation, first with SCRUM and then with SAFe. Product owner (PO) for a scrum team developing C++ code enhancing the compiler framework. Implemented automated methodologies for continuous integration and deployment from several Git repositories. Recognized for technical contributions and selected as an Intel Division Technical Lead.

Folsom, California, United States

Helped hire, train and develop a team of post silicon validation engineers tasked with validating Intel’s CPUs. Trained and mentored junior engineers, teaching them about the software tools and validation methodologies at Intel. Architected and led development of reusable validation content methodology. Helped plan and write requirements for a test card for validating an embedded imaging pipeline.

Folsom, California, United States

Architected and developed firmware used to validate Intel Active Management Technology (AMT) hardware. Solely owned the development, enabling, and debug of power management and reset firmware code across several chip set generations. Architected and developed Linux device drivers and applications which communicated with the firmware to enable the full validation of the AMT hardware from the host system. Debugged and root caused numerous OEM customer issues related to power management both with HW and SW.

Folsom, California, United States

Developed validation test plans and requirement documents. Used logic analyzers and oscilloscopes to debug issues in post silicon, looking at PCI, AGP, FSB, I2C, and Memory buses. Developed software to control on board voltage regulators to allow automation of voltage shmooing. Developed and owned proprietary concurrency configuration files used to validate Intel chip sets. Lead an execution team focusing on process improvements to reduce false failures and improve execution automation. Developed web based live execution monitoring system.

Clearwater, Florida, United States

Developed and refactored MPEG decoder firmware written in ANSI C. Owned development of audio fade in/out features as well as closed caption overlay implementation.