Dec 2014 – May 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Developing components of a validation tool for IPs in Intel SoCs using C++.
• As part of my work I have to develop drivers for the test cards, provide library functions for device communication protocols and write example tests to demonstrate use of the library functions.

May 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Wrote multi-threaded focused tests in C and x86 assembly for custom OS based tool for functional validation of the Intel CPU IPs.
• Led the validation efforts of my team in focused testing of Intel CPUs.
• Worked on and developed expertise in the CPU architecture areas of Virtual Machine Extension(VMX), Safer Mode Extension (SMX) and Software Guard Extension (SGX).

Sep 2010 – Apr 2011 · 7 mos

• Served as a teaching assistant for the following courses
• 1) Discrete Mathematics.
• 2) Introduction to Artificial Intelligence.

Aug 2009 – Apr 2011 · 1 yr 8 mos

• I was a graduate student in Computer Science and Engineering department.

May 2010 – Aug 2010 · 3 mos · Greater San Diego Area

Jul 2008 – Aug 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Digital circuit design.
• VHDL based hardware design

Jul 2007 – Jul 2008 · 1 yr · Bengaluru Area, India

• World's most preferred DSP IP supplier;
• Designed, developed and optimized image and video CODECs for ARM-9E and ARM Cortex-A8 based platforms.
• Enhanced JPEG decoder for 3DLabs DSP platform by adding customized decoding of progressive JPEG images.
• Optimized and ported MPEG-4 decoder on ARM Cortex-A8 based systems using SIMD assembly instruction set by
• participating in team effort; achieved real-time (40fps+) video play capability.
• Organized GIF image decoder in C by introducing APIs for achieving application, library and memory level abstraction
• and improving portability. Optimized BMP decoder using ARM9E assembly; reduced CPU cycles by 30 percent.

May 2006 – Jun 2006 · 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

• Developed simple network time protocol (SNTP) from scratch by working independently and with minimum assistance.
• Successfully implemented SNTP using C and then tested it for use in IPTV; received pre college placement job offer.