Feb 2022 – May 2022 · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

• Worked as a SWE at Cisco proprietary BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) team under the Mass-scale Infrastructure Group.

Feb 2021 – Jan 2022 · 11 mos

• Worked as an SSDE at Intel® Client Platform Solutions Division under Client Computing Group.
• 1. Member of the Intel proprietary Dynamic Tuning Technology (DTT) team, contributing to the development of an automatic tuning tool that leverages algorithms to predict workload demands and dynamically adjust system performance. DTT serves as a unified thermal and power management solution across multiple platforms, including Chrome, Windows, and Linux.
• 2. Responsible for designing and implementing new features such as integrating workload-specific actions, enabling tuning algorithms, and developing DTT policy support within the tool. Additional responsibilities include bug fixing, code porting, and performing unit testing to ensure reliability and performance.

Aug 2017 – Jan 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Worked as an SWE at Intel® Connected Home Division under Client Computing Group.
• 1. Member of the Intel proprietary Packet Acceleration Engine team, focused on enhancing Connected Home Division products by developing new features, resolving issues, and improving performance within the Universal Gateway framework on SMP architectures.
• 2. Experienced in device driver development across software paths, hardware paths, and hardware abstraction layers, as well as kernel-mode debugging to analyze memory leaks, investigate crash dumps, and implement performance optimizations. Collaborated closely with software and system architects to deliver new features and proof-of-concept implementations.
• 3. Gained in-depth understanding of data path processing in Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols, tunneling mechanisms in the Linux TCP/IP stack, and programming proprietary network acceleration engines.
• 4. Responsible for optimizing solutions for code quality and CPU efficiency, including developing new features, debugging and resolving issues, porting code across platforms, and performing unit, system, and sanity testing.

Feb 2017 – Jul 2017 · 5 mos

• Worked as an SWE Intern at Intel® Connected Home Division under Client Computing Group.
• 1. Collaborated with the Software Architecture team to study, analyze, and enhance the offload data path on GRX350 and GRX750 SoCs, implementing performance optimizations across both MIPS and Intel® Atom™ architecture-based platforms.
• 2. Conducted in-depth profiling of CPU offload path drivers and network drivers utilizing the offload path, identifying and addressing bottlenecks to improve data throughput and reduce CPU utilization.
• 3. Worked extensively within the UGW (Universal Gateway) software environment, including building software packages, updating the Linux kernel, and deploying builds onto target hardware boards.