Roderick Khan

Two decades of strategic leadership meets hands-on engineering. Real-world insights from boardroom decisions to firmware debugging.

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Negotiating PoE+ Power in the Pre‑Boot Environment

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Solving a boot-time power challenge on PoE+ x86 systems by creating our own UEFI app to handle LLDP power negotiation at the firmware level, allowing our machines to request higher power from network switches before the OS loads.