Sumeet P. — Product Manager

• Contributed on Google Chrome OS majorly on Linux Kernel, Device drivers, Thermal Management, DPTF/DTT, System Firmware, Power Management and Performance improvement on Linux OS based system. • MAINTAINER [of DPTF Thermal driver], active developer, contributor on Coreboot.org Open Source Firmware and Linux Kernel, device driver development for Intel X86 based Chrome* OS platform. • Worked on many x86 SoCs like Sky/Kaby, TigerLake, AlderLake, RaptorLake & MeteorLake. • Total 18+ years experience of work experience in Embedded domain. Highlights: ~~~~~~~~ • Linux Kernel internals • Device Drivers development • Embedded System Programming • Thermal Management • Power Management in Linux Kernel, Chrome OS, Android OS and Coreboot Firmware Skills: ~~~~~ • Strong in C and assembly, ACPI programming on Intel x86 and ARM SoC based platforms. • Good understanding of Linux Thermal Management (TM) and Power Management (PM). • Expertise in fine tuning thermal management system solution for power and performance optimizations. • Developed Power Management and other device drivers (Input Touchkey, FM Radio, Serial/UART driver, I2C, SPI and GPIO based drivers) for Samsung's Android Galaxy Smartphones/Tablet devices like Galaxy Nexus at Google, Galaxy Note, Galaxy A, S2, S3 smart-phones on ARM SoC. • Developed I2C, SPI, PCI & ISA Bus Device Driver for Embedded Linux platform. • Strong in Embedded System, U-boot Bootloader, Device tree (DTS), RTOS concepts and shell scripts programming. • Used tools GIT, Gerrit, Bugzilla, JIRA, Makefile, KGDB, JTAG for kernel debugging. • Worked at Google HQ Mountain View for first Galaxy Nexus Android based Smartphone. • Worked at strong competitive customer environments at - Nokia (Finland), - Samsung (South Korea), - LG, Motorola, TI (USA and Mexico) to support the customer requirements & fixed critical issues. • TI OMAP3/4 PM driver on Maemo OS based N900 Linux smartphone at Nokia (Finland) for one year. Open Source contribution: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 1. Chrome* OS Tree (Google) : https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/q/owner:%2522Sumeet+R+Pawnikar%2522 2. Linux Mainline Kernel : https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=pawnikar 3. Coreboot (Firmware) : https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/coreboot.git/log/?qt=author&q=pawnikar 4. Android OS: ITUX thermal solution upstream on Google Git for Smart phone, Tablet, Nexus Player and Google Glass. https://android.googlesource.com/platform/hardware/intel/common/utils/+/9831abd60e70ef4cf50148068f25d3b78874113d/ituxd/

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled Embedded Systems Engineer with a focus on Linux Kernel and Device Driver development.

Experience: 21 yrs

Skills

Thermal Management
Linux Kernel
Kernel Development
Pci Express
Device Drivers
Embedded Systems
Linux Device Drivers
Embedded Linux

Career Highlights

18+ years of experience in Embedded Systems
Expertise in Linux Kernel and Device Drivers
Significant contributions to Open Source projects

Work Experience

Cisco

System Software Architect (1 yr 5 mos)

Intel Corporation

System Software Architect (5 yrs 6 mos)

Technical Lead (2 yrs 11 mos)

Senior Software Engineer (2 yrs 7 mos)

Samsung India Software Operations

Technical Lead (1 yr 2 mos)

Lead Engineer (1 yr 11 mos)

Wipro Technologies

Senior Software Engineer (9 mos)

Software Engineer (2 yrs 11 mos)

Crystaline Infotek Pvt Ltd, Pune

Embedded Linux Device Driver Software Engineer (1 yr 10 mos)

Education

Bachelor's degree at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

Post Graduation at Savitribai Phule Pune University

Bachelor of Science - BS at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda

Sumeet P.

Product Manager

India21 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

18+ years of experience in Embedded Systems
Expertise in Linux Kernel and Device Drivers
Significant contributions to Open Source projects

Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled Embedded Systems Engineer with a focus on Linux Kernel and Device Driver development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Thermal ManagementLinux KernelKernel DevelopmentPci ExpressDevice DriversEmbedded SystemsLinux Device DriversEmbedded Linux

Other Skills

ARM ArchitectureASICAndroidAssembly LanguageBluetoothCC++DPTFDebuggingDigital Signal ProcessorsEmbedded CJTAGKernelMulti-Channel DMAOMAP

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Experience

Cisco

System Software Architect

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Hybrid

Spearheaded the upgrade of the Linux kernel across multiple platforms, enhancing system performance and security.
Designed and implemented UEFI-based Secure Boot feature for diverse Linux platforms, ensuring robust security measures.
Collaborated with cross-functional teams to streamline processes, resulting in a 30% reduction in deployment time.

Intel corporation

3 roles

System Software Architect

Promoted

Mar 2019 – Sep 2024 · 5 yrs 6 mos

Chief Engineer - Worked as technical architect for thermal management/DPTF for Chrome* OS based systems.
Main responsibility is to provide architecture, design solution and new features developments for thermal software domain for edge systems like foldables, 2-in-1 and tablet designs.
Lead the team for overall system power and performance optimizations and improvements on Chrome platforms.
Involved in coordinating with multiple geos team (internal & external) for Thermal Firmware, OS, Kernel design, development and debug.
Linux kernel Thermal management on Chrome* OS systems. Thermal driver and firmware development and optimizations on Linux platforms.
Thermal Management/DPTF, Coreboot Firmware and Power Management Linux device drivers and kernel features on IA x86 based Chrome OS platform.
Also, actively contributing on Open-Source of Coreboot Firmware at https://review.coreboot.org

Thermal ManagementDPTFLinux KernelDevice Drivers

Technical Lead

Apr 2016 – Mar 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Multi-Channel DMA Intel feature for PCI Express based Smart NIC for Cloud/Server HW platforms :
Designed, developed and integrated MCDMA feature in kernel with DPDK based Poll Mode (PMD) driver, PCIe End-Point Chardev and Netdev (L2/L3/IP) Ethernet e100/1000 driver.
PMD driver allows the user space to access the device and does DMA ops and interrupt handling.
Added VFs support in Kernel v5.7 onwards allows IOMMU programming by using IOCTL interface.
MCDMA detdev driver does channel, device and interrupt management and enables transmission between network-based applications and hardware eg ethtool, ip, ifconfig linux kernel utility tools.
Integrated custom user mode driver with SRIOV support using VFIO and UIO kernel frameworks.

Multi-Channel DMAPCI ExpressKernel Development

Senior Software Engineer

Aug 2013 – Mar 2016 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Worked on Intel Atom processors for Android OS Smartphone and Tablet platforms on Thermal Management in Linux kernel and device drivers and system design and debug.
Also, worked on Power Management Linux device drivers and kernel features on Android OS.
Designed, developed and maintained thermal management software solution and framework on AOSP for intel based mobile and client products.
Had delivered various products like Smartphone, Google Glass, Tablet platforms for enabling Thermal subsystem and use cases.
Contributed in open source AOSP intel thermal software development.

Thermal ManagementDevice DriversPower Management

Samsung india software operations

2 roles

Technical Lead

May 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

Worked on LCD panel, display and FM radio linux kernel drivers on Samsung's flagship Android OS based Galaxy Smartphones and Tablets like Galaxy SII, S3, Note and Samsung Tab 10".

Linux KernelDevice Drivers

Lead Engineer

Jun 2010 – May 2012 · 1 yr 11 mos

Working on OMAP4 (SMP) Architecture on Kernel, Device Drivers for Android based Smart-phone and Tablet Development.
IO, input and I2C bus Driver and Framework
Developed Battery Device Driver
Closely working with hardware team to provide an expert feedback on platform related kernel and driver issues.

Kernel DevelopmentDevice Drivers

Wipro technologies

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Sep 2009 – Jun 2010 · 9 mos

Working at Texas Instruments [TI] client site as a contractor specialist in Linux device drivers development work on OMAP base Mobile platform.

Linux Device DriversEmbedded Systems

Software Engineer

Oct 2006 – Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 11 mos

3 years experience as a Senior Software Engineer in Embedded Linux domain.
On-site exposure of 9 months at different strong competitive customer base environment.
Technical Skills:
(1) Linux Kernel Internals, Device Driver
(2) OS System programming
(3) D-Bus IPC mechanism
(4) Bluetooth Profiles & Driver knowledge
Project Info:
(1) Linux Device Drivers on OMAP 3430 platform for OMAP-Linux Code base. Also, supporting other Base port Drivers.
(2) Bluetooth middleware services (PBAP, SAP) for Car-Kit
(3) Section Filter Management (SFM) Driver on Set-Top Box (STB/DVB)
(4) ISA & PCI Bus Device Driver on Embedded Linux Platform for DSP Board
(5) TCP-IP, UDP, DHCP Networking protocol knowledge with Client-Server application development

Embedded LinuxDevice Drivers

Crystaline infotek pvt ltd, pune

Embedded Linux Device Driver Software Engineer

Dec 2004 – Oct 2006 · 1 yr 10 mos

I worked on Embedded linux platform and developed PCI & ISA Bus Device Drivers for DSP Board.
I have also developed the Serial to Ethernet converter using TCP-IP, UDP, DHCP Client-Server application support for this product. During the development of Serial to Ethernet converter product development I had gone through the complete embedded product development cycle.

Embedded LinuxDevice Drivers