Nov 2010 – Dec 2023 · 13 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Working as an architect for iLO BMC FW team and providing guidance to team on FW deliverables, spearheading the architectural discussions with ASIC design team to incorporate the FW requirements in HW as much possible, interacting with platform HW design team to review platform specification, understand the new changes coming in future platforms and guiding team for support for the same. Leading platform enablement activities and bring up readiness.
• Providing guidance to team on Uboot, Linux kernel and device drivers enablement/changes based on the ASIC and HW design, bring up of Uboot and Linux kernel in 32bit and 64bit mode with single core and dual core ARM processor.
• Evaluation of various non-volatile storage technologies in terms of speed, endurance, wear leveling bad block management, suitable file systems etc and providing recommendation based on the use case.
• Investigation of the attack surfaces of UEFI FW (like ACPI, SMI handlers, UEFI Runtime Services) on a bare metal instances of cloud platform and recommendation.
• Innovation (patented) in UEFI FW to perform non-disruptive BIOS updates in SMI handlers without server reboot to avoid system downtime and loss to customer.
• Experience with multiple Persistent Memory technologies enablement in UEFI including Type41 (Using NVDIMM-N or HPE Scalable Persistent Memory as a cache for Intel Apache Pass Persistent Memory), Type1 JEDEC NVDIMM-N, Intel AEP. Customer debriefing about different Persistent Memory solutions. Architecture design for UEFI support for 16GB JEDEC NVDIMM-N product including engagement with HW vendor for NVDIMM-N FW support, driving System BIOS development with team, working with OS vendors for ACPI support, engaging with Intel on MRC issues.

Jul 2007 – Oct 2010 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Pune, Maharashtra · On-site

• Worked as a Video BIOS developer. Roles and responsibilities included, development of Video BIOS for NVIDIA Graphics cards, played a role of Video BIOS lead for G98 GPU family graphics cards, debugging and support of Video BIOS issues, diagnostics tools development, GPU bring up validation.

Jun 2005 – Jul 2007 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Ahmedabad, Gujarat · On-site

• Worked as an Embedded Engineer on various Embedded System projects including porting of audio/video encoder/decoder libraries for multiple IDE platforms, audio encoder algorithm porting and optimization, Linux device driver development.