Odelu Kukatla

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India23 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Linux device driver architecture and kernel internals.
Led development of SDKs for System-On-Chips in consumer electronics.
Strong experience in pre-silicon and post-silicon validation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a specialist in Embedded Systems and Device Driver development for Consumer Electronics.

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Skills

Core Skills

Embedded SystemsDevice DriversLinux Device DriverFirmwareVideo SubsystemAudio ProcessingDriver Development

Other Skills

Embedded SoftwareDebuggingCARMRTOSSoCEmbedded LinuxIntegrationSDK developmentPre-silicon bring upPost-silicon validationQuality improvementBug fixingVideo decodingPost processing

About

My experience mainly includes .. • Design, development of Embedded systems software and Linux based device drivers. • Expertise in Linux device driver architecture and Linux Kernel Internals. • Experience in Leading and handling a software module development independently with small teams. • Strong working knowledge on ARM family of processor architectures. • Development of platform SDKs for System-On-chips targeted for Consumer Electronics markets. • Major experience in software design and development across Applications to Low Level Device Drivers. • Software development experience in Digital Television and STB platforms with strong system knowledge. • Hands on experience in developing the Power Management driver/Power saving Modes in System-On-Chips. • Involved in complete development cycle of SDK for SoCs right from designing to initial testing. • Hands on working knowledge on serial communication protocols like I2C and SPI. • Pre-silicon bring up of SDK on emulation platform and post-silicon bring up and validation of hardware and software features on SoC. • Audio/Video codes and video post processing algorithms. • Experience with tools like SVN, Perforce and JIRA. • Working with Customers Onsite/Off-site.

Experience

23 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

11 yrs 4 mos

Current Experience

Qualcomm

Staff Engineer

Jan 2015 – Present · 11 yrs 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

Device DriversEmbedded SoftwareDebuggingEmbedded SystemsCARM+5

Entropic communications

Staff Engineer

Nov 2009 – Nov 2014 · 5 yrs · Greater Hyderabad Area

Technical leadership of video subsystem team that is responsible for development of driver for Video HW device/ip.
Designed and developed Linux based device driver for video subsystem HW IP.
Designed and developed firmware for video subsystem that controls Video decoding and post processing on HW IP.
Involved in complete development cycle of SDK for SoCs right from designing to initial testing.
Working with Customers Onsite/Off-site.
Pre-silicon bring up of SDK on emulation platform and post-silicon bring up and validation of hardware and software features on SoC.
Quality improvement and bug fixing.

Linux device driverVideo subsystemFirmwareSDK developmentPre-silicon bring upPost-silicon validation+2

Broadcom

Staff engineer

Aug 2004 – Nov 2009 · 5 yrs 3 mos

Key member in the team that developed software driver for Broadcom's family of SoCs.
Designed and developed Linux based device driver that controls the video subsystem hardware block.
Designed and dDeveloped the driver software and firmware for Video decoding and post video post processing (like video scaling, de-interlacing, Video Noise measurement & Noise Reduction, picture quality enhancement and colour conversion) hardware blocks.
Working with Customers Onsite/Off-site.

Linux device driverVideo subsystemFirmwareVideo decodingPost processingCustomer interaction

Amd

Member Technical Staff

Aug 2001 – Jul 2003 · 1 yr 11 mos

Ported Audio codecs like MPEG audio layer-3 algorithm into assembly code for fixed point DSP processors.
Ported Audio post processing algorithms like SRS TruSurround XT and Dolby Head phones into assembly code for fixed point DSP processor.
Developed the software driver for I2C and SPI serial interfaces.
Designed and developed the driver for LCD display and Keypad user interfaces.
Worked on 8051-microcontrollers

Audio codecsDSP processorsI2CSPILCD displayKeypad interfaces+2