Bharath Mulagondla

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India8 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in boot firmware for ARM-based SoCs.
Filed patent for innovative logging mechanism.
Led board bring-up through major SoC tapeouts.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a specialist in Embedded Systems with a focus on firmware development for ARM-based architectures.

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Skills

Core Skills

BootloaderFirmwareDebuggingPerformance AnalysisEmbedded SystemsSystem On A Chip (soc)

Other Skills

Safety and Security PrinciplesSystem and Boot PeripheralsCollaborationPerformance OptimizationEmulation PlatformsBoard Bring-upPythonDevice DriversCan-FD ComplianceBaremetal DriversIEEE 802.3Scripting LanguagesMemory Management UnitOptimizationComputer Science

About

System Software Engineer with experience in boot firmware and platform bring-up for ARM-based SoCs. Currently at NVIDIA, working on UEFI and boot firmware for ARM client SoCs. Previously at AMD/Xilinx, designed and delivered safety-critical (ASIL-D) boot firmware for Versal SoC platforms. Led board bring-up through two major SoC tapeouts. Skilled in C, Rust, Python, UEFI, device drivers, and embedded systems debugging.

Experience

8 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 6 mos

Current Experience

Nvidia

Senior System Software Engineer

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Amd

2 roles

Sr. Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Dec 2022 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

● Design and Development of XIlinx Versal Bootloader firmware following safety and security principles.
● Obtained very good understanding of the System and Boot peripherals, including Programmable Logic, NoC.
● Debugged critical system level issues. Also collaborated across various teams and architects for optimizing the system design for performance
● Filed patent at USPTO (US18090207) for unique Error and Debug information logging mechanism during boot.

BootloaderFirmwareSafety and Security PrinciplesSystem and Boot PeripheralsDebuggingCollaboration+1

Software Development Engineer 2

Feb 2022 – Dec 2022 · 10 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Joined through Xilinx Acquisition
● Design, Development and optimizing code size and performance of XIlinx Versal Bootloader/Firmware following safety and security principles.
● Bring-up of emulation platforms and board during pre/post-tapeout of next-gen AMD/Xilinx SoC devices.

BootloaderFirmwareSafety and Security PrinciplesEmulation PlatformsBoard Bring-up

Xilinx

2 roles

Software Engineer 2

Promoted

Jul 2019 – Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

● Design, Development and optimizing code size and performance of XIlinx Versal Bootloader/Firmware following safety and security principles.
● Bring-up of emulation platforms and board during pre/post-tapeout of next-gen AMD/Xilinx SoC devices.
● Analyzed boot & configuration times for Versal SoC and developed a python-based GUI app to estimate the configuration time consuming various inputs.
● Also worked on verifying bare-metal device drivers. Worked on feature coverage of most peripherals like SPI, I2C, QSPI, OSPI, DMA, GPIO, SD/eMMC, WDT.
● Worked on Python based automation framework for regression testing of baremetal drivers.

BootloaderFirmwarePerformance AnalysisPythonDevice Drivers

Software Engineer 1

Jul 2018 – Jun 2019 · 11 mos

● Worked on Can-FD compliance.
● Worked as verification engineer for baremetal drivers like SPI, QSPI, OSPI, Can-FD.
● Worked on bring-up of emulation platforms and boards during versal SoC tapeouts.

Can-FD ComplianceBaremetal DriversEmulation PlatformsEmbedded Systems