Sathishkumar S

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in GPU Multimedia IP and driver development.
Significant contributions to Linux kernel and open source projects.
Proven track record in automotive and embedded systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor and Automotive Embedded Systems Engineer with extensive driver development expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Gpu Multimedia IpDriver DevelopmentAutomotive Linux BspEmbedded SystemsLinux

Other Skills

AMDGPU JPEG IP Driver developmentPre-Silicon and Post-Silicon bring-upPower-shift supportMESA Radeon driver developmentC++ application developmentAMDGPUJPEG IPMESARadeon DriverJPEG DecodingV4L2 driver developmentVideo-decoder driver improvementsSerdes driver developmentUART driver optimizationV4L2

About

Linux Kernel Engineer working on drivers for GPU-MultimediaIP (JPEG/Video-Core-Next), V4L2, camera-sensor/video-decoder drivers, Automotive Linux BSP, drivers for Serdes ICs (FPDLink/GMSL) and Remote Display-panels, Pre-Silicon Emulation and post silicon bring-up of JPEG IP (MI Instinct GPU) and performance optimization. Open source contributions in Linux kernel amdgpu driver and MESA Radeon Driver.

Experience

15 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

5 mos

Current Experience

Texas instruments

Lead Software Engineer

Jan 2026 – Present · 5 mos

Baseport Lead for Sitara MPU

Amd

MTS Software Development

Nov 2020 – Jan 2026 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

AMDGPU JPEG IP Driver development and bring-up on both Pre-Silicon and Post-Silicon.
Enable per-queue reset for JPEG IP in driver to recover from job hangs, avoiding GPU hang.
Enable dev-core-dump in JPEG driver for all amdgpu-jpeg versions.
Added DRM scheduler job submission control mask debug-fs entry for VCN and JPEG driver.
AMDGPU Smart-shift implementation for power-shift support on AMD A+A configurations.
AMDGPU VCN/JPEG IP count query fixes for normal and partitioned modes.
MESA Radeon driver development for JPEG ROI Decode.
MESA Radeon driver development for YUV to RGBA/ARGB/RGBP.
MESA Radeon driver development for decoding JPEG greyscale, YUV444, YUV440 color formats.
MESA multi-core JPEG decode support for single MJPEG stream, radeon multimedia info support.
VMAF/PSNR based encode and SHA256 based decode test automation for all codecs/entry-points.
Developed C++ applications to measure VCN multi-instance(cores) HW decode fps for all codecs.
Developed C++ application to measure JPEG multi-core HW decode performance for MI Instinct.

AMDGPU JPEG IP Driver developmentPre-Silicon and Post-Silicon bring-upPower-shift supportMESA Radeon driver developmentC++ application developmentGPU Multimedia IP+1

Harman international

Principal Engineer

Nov 2015 – Oct 2020 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Developed V4L2 out driver for Automative use-case with v4l2-control, cache-coherence, zero-copy.
ADV7180 Video-decoder driver improvements for fast-lock, diagnostic, recovery with POC.
Hardware bug Identification on GMSL serdes link causing i2c communication failures and demostration.
Serdes driver for DS90UH941, DS90UB948, DS90UB927, MAX9277.
Remote display driver for JDI/Sharp/Panasonic display with Atmel/Cypress/Synaptic touch integration.
Customer Demonstration preparation for power-on to camera display time of 1.88s on IMX6DL.
Exynos UART hardware bug identification and demonstration with hardware flow control and DMA.
IMX6DL UART driver optimization for High bandwidth UART interface for Apple-CarPlay/Android-Auto.
Fixed bug in IMX6DL uart driver which caused intermittent transmission gaps, slowing 2Mbps transfers.
TTY/UART layer modifications to support low latency read/write avoiding worker-queue starvation.
Optimized U-boot initialization + kernel copy + start_kernel() within 300 ms on IMX6DL platform.
IAM20680 IMU 6 axis motion sensor driver customization for OEM.
Multiple OEM board bring-ups based on IMX6DL Orinoco, Mediatek and ExynosAuto9 platforms.