Dec 2025 – Present · 6 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• Currently working in the System Security Group (SSG) at Qualcomm, contributing to the architecture, development, and maintenance of platform security solutions for Android and Linux embedded systems across multiple SoC targets. Actively involved in technical ownership of critical security components, driving features from design and implementation through integration and deployment.
• Lead and contribute to the development, integration, and optimization of Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions, ensuring secure content delivery, industry compliance, and strong protection against security vulnerabilities across Android and Linux platforms. Serve as a key technical point of contact in collaborations with Google, driving DRM integration, design reviews, and resolution of complex platform and security issues while aligning with upstream requirements.
• Possess strong expertise in Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) architecture, with hands-on experience in GlobalPlatform APIs, including TEE Internal Core API and TEE Client API, enabling secure REE–TEE and TEE–TEE communication and trusted application development.
• Strong background in system-level programming (C/C++), with experience in embedded Linux, Android native framework, IPC mechanisms (Binder, sockets, shared memory), process and thread management, system services, and native daemons. Demonstrated leadership in security feature bring-up, cross-team debugging, and root-cause analysis, mentoring peers on complex platform issues.
• Hands-on expertise in SELinux policy development and debugging, system hardening, cryptographic engines, secure key management, trusted storage, and memory management, with a focus on performance and security. Proficient in low-level debugging and platform bring-up using JTAG, kernel logs, and tracing tools. Comfortable working in fast-paced, cross-functional environments, influencing design decisions and ensuring delivery of secure, high-quality system releases.

Jan 2022 – Dec 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India · On-site

• o Currently working in the System Security Group (SSG) at Qualcomm, focusing on
• enhancing and maintaining security features for Android and Linux embedded systems.
• o Developed and implemented Digital Rights Management (DRM) solutions for various
• projects, ensuring content security across Android and Linux platforms.
• o Collaborated with Google to implement DRM solutions and resolve related bugs.
• o Worked extensively with Global Platform API, including TEE Internal Core API and TEE
• Client API, which help establish communication between TEE to TEE and REE to TEE.
• o Gained extensive experience in C, C++, TEE, REE, IPC, SELinux, process management,
• services, daemon, crypto engine and heap buffer allocation.
• o Proficient in hands-on debugging, particularly with JTAG.