Ashok Reddy Soma

Director of Engineering

Hyderabad, Telangana, India19 yrs 6 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in porting U-Boot and Linux to ARM SOCs.
Led U-Boot project for Xilinx SOCs.
Extensive experience in embedded systems and firmware development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a specialist in Embedded Systems with a focus on firmware development and device drivers.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Product ManagementEmbedded LinuxU-boot

Other Skills

Software ManagementC++GitSatellite CommunicationsProduct ManagementSprint PlanningARMv7ARMv8C (Programming Language)Device DriversARM ArchitectureBootloaderLinux KernelLinuxShell Scripting

About

Seasoned professional with experience in firmware development. Area of expertise is, porting U-boot and Linux to ARM based SOC's, developing bare metal applications, bootloaders, low level device drivers and firmware using C and ARM assembly.

Experience

19 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

2 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Ast spacemobile

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

Software Product ManagementSoftware ManagementC++GitSatellite CommunicationsProduct Management+2

Amd

Member Of Technical Staff

Jul 2019 – Aug 2023 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Moved as part of AMD acquisition of Xilinx.
Responsible for complete U-Boot project for all Xilinx SOC's (Zynq, Zynq UltraScale+(ZynqMP), Versal and Versal NET family of devices).
U-Boot drivers SPI, QSPI, OSPI, Ethernet, SD/eMMC, Watchdog.

ARMv7ARMv8U-BootC (Programming Language)Device DriversARM Architecture+4

Aspeed technology inc

Staff Engineer

May 2012 – Jun 2019 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Moved as a part of Aspeed acquisition of BMC division from Broadcom.

Broadcom limited

Staff Engineer

May 2012 – Dec 2016 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bangalore

Moved as part of Avago acquisition of Emulex communications. Avago changed its name to Broadcom(2.0) after acquiring Broadcom.
Board bring up and porting of u-boot to ARM A9 based SOC.
Porting of linux to ARM A9 based SOC. Kernel version 3.14 and 4.4.
Ported Linux drivers for SDHC/EMMC.
Ported MAC phy layer to network driver (tulip core).
Ported u-boot drivers for SDHC/EMMC.
Developed baremetal drivers for SD/eMMC for booting out of hardwired in chip ROM.
Ported Linux drivers for Watchdog
Developed few custom character drivers.
Developed shell scripts for testing and automating the test process.

Hcl technologies

Lead engineer

Mar 2011 – Apr 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

Robert bosch engineering and business solutions ltd.

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2008 – Feb 2011 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

Worked on firmware development on a custom RTOS for exhaust gas treatment of passenger cars.
Worked on CAN protocol

Medha servo drives pvt ltd

Design Engineer

Jul 2006 – Jun 2008 · 1 yr 11 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

Worked on developing standalone software for 16bit micro controller.
Worked on USB CDROM gadget backed by 8MB flash for retrieving data stored on flash device.
Worked on USB device driver(mass storage gadget) for storing data on flash device.
Worked on USB host driver for storing data on Mass storage device.