Aug 2016 – Nov 2021 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Subhranil works in Wireless and Networking team as a Staff Engineer/Manager.
• Handled entire process of bring-up to Final Delivery for 3 chips.
• Main responsibilities include:
• 1. Managing a team of engineers.
• 2. Design and Develop networking and wifi datapath drivers for slow and fast paths on various Qualcomm processors.
• 3. End to end driving a New platform and chip bring up.
• 4. Own and Resolve critical issues
• 5. Mentor junior members of the team.
• 6. Scoping, Designing and developing new WiFi datapath features.
• Notable System Architecture changes accomplished during my tenure include:
• 1. Hardware agnostic Dual and Triple band WiFi Repeaters
• 2. Encrypted Repeaters implementation in the fast-path
• 3. Service Aware ( multi-Q ) WiFi and Networking fast Datapath
• Chipsets:
• Qualcomm Snapdragon gateway processors for WiFi6 and Wifi7 technologies.

Apr 2016 – Aug 2016 · 4 mos

• Subhranil worked as an MTS as a part of the Manageability SW team in the KVM project.
• His main responsibilities include:
• 1. Design and development of KVM features like NIC drivers(Broadcom, Realtek), LPC UART driver, booloader development etc.
• 2. Interviewing new candidates for team expansion.
• 3. Design discussions with cross-functional teams.
• 4. Mentoring the junior engineers.
• OS - Linux, Ubuntu
• CPU Architectures : x86, ARM v7
• Socs:
• AMD processors

Sep 2014 – Apr 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Subhranil worked as a Senior System Software Engineer as a part of the Automotive System Software Team.
• His main responsibilities include:
• Design and Develop new protocols, drivers in Linux and QNX on various automotive platforms.
• New platform and SOC bring-up.
• Resolve critical system issues
• Mentor the juniors
• Perform code-reviews and keep a strict eye on the standard of code going out of
• the team.
• Work closely with the hardware team for :
• Providing chip design and feature reviews in the pre-silicon phase
• Schematic reviews in the board design phase
• OS - Linux, QNX
• CPU Architectures : ARM v7, v8
• Socs:
• Nvidia Tegra Series of Processors

Feb 2014 – Sep 2014 · 7 mos

• Subhranil worked as a part of the Embedded systems Group.
• Subhranil worked as a Consultant in Qualcomm Atheros as a part of the NSS team.
• Other than that his activities included:
• 1. Drive some of the internals projects on Linux device drivers, linux applications and protocol stack.
• 2. Interviewing and recruiting for the ESG group.
• Linux kernel internals, system calls, filesystem understanding, linux process understanding etc.

Jun 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos

• Subhranil worked as a Consultant in CISCO.
• Subhranil worked as a part of the CISCO diagnostics team.
• His responsibilities included building diagnostics software and low-level device driver.
• Subhranil was involved in the diagnostic software and driver development of Cisco's 40G and 400G linecard products.
• This included:
• 1) Development of the diagnostics software
• 2) Debugging the various system level issues and Supporting the internal Manufacturing teams during various manufacturing hardware validation cycles.
• 3) Worked with various chipset vendors like Broadcom, Intel for performance analysis and troubleshooting of various system level issues.
• Other than the above, Subhranil's responsibilities within the company also included;
• 1) Searching, interviewing the right candidates for the Embedded team's various requirements.
• 2) Providing the required training and hands-on to the juniors on various Embedded domains like:
• Device driver development
• Diagnostic software
• Board Bring-up
• Bootloader development

Jul 2007 – May 2012 · 4 yrs 10 mos

• Subhranil worked as a Senior System Software Engineer as a part of the Multimedia Systems Team.
• Subhranil worked as Customer Champion in many projects and as Individual contributor in others.
• Main contributions include designing a ethernet over SPI driver, writing complete ethernet drivers for 10 port switch with copper and fibre ports.
• His main technical responsibilities include:
• 1) Linux Device drivers development and Porting
• Development of multiple drivers from scratch
• 2) Bootloader development and Porting and Board bring-up.
• 3) Expertise on - Ethernet, Audio , DMA drivers
• 4) Design and Development of customized Inter-Processor Communications
• 5) Very Good System Level Understanding of Hardware Protocols and Interfaces
• PCI/PCIe, I2C, SPI, MII/GMII/RGMII, XAUI, NOR & NAND
• OS - Linux, Sys BIOS, WinCE
• CPU Architectures : ARM v6, v7
• Socs:
• Texas Instruments processors like:
• Davinci series - DM644x, DM646x, DM816x(Netra series)
• Arm only - DM350, DM355, DM365
• DSP only - DM648 , C667X (Shannon series)
• Mobile processors - OMAP3 series etc