Akshay Adiga

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 1 mo experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Linux kernel development and optimization.
Proven track record in automotive kernel projects.
Strong background in filesystem and memory management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Linux kernel developer with expertise in automotive and embedded systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Linux KernelEmbedded SystemsUpstream

Other Skills

Kernel upgradeCoresightGunyahBringupCFile SystemsDevice DriversMemory ManagementNVMeSSD

About

Technical Skills: Linux power management ( cpufreq , cpuidle) . Optimization of filesystem for Block layer for NVMe SSD. Optimization of Block layer for NVMe SSD. Memory management/virtual memory optimization for the new filesystem for Mobile chipsets. Linux Filesystem driver development from scatch. Complete board bring up for Petalinux distribution and U-boot bootloader. Writing linux device drivers and kernel modules for custom ip. kernel version 2.4.x and 2.6.x. Remote Debugging using gdb server on target. Implemented and verified a bus model using SystemC, TLM2. Static timing analysis, validating timing closure for ip's. Using Synplify,Xilinx XST, Modelsim. Test automation using tcl scripts for synplify and Xilinx XST. and Report generation using python. Implemented and verified ip cores in Verilog.

Experience

13 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Nutanix

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos

Qualcomm

2 roles

Staff Engineer

Dec 2024 – Jan 2025 · 1 mo · On-site

Sr lead engineer

Apr 2020 – Dec 2024 · 4 yrs 8 mos · On-site

Automotive ABL/kernel developer ( Telematics)
Develop driver for logging via ARM Coresight STM on Gunyah and QNX VMs.
Design and development of Gunyah VM dump collection
Responsible for delivery of kernel work items for 9 different program with the help
of 2 junior engineers, 2 consulatants/contractors.
Work closely with customers on issues and requests.
Chip bringup (linux kernel) for 2 automotive chipsets.
Presilicon validation (linux kernel) for 2 automotive chipsets.
Y2038 solution across all kernel versions and 32-bit and 64-bit arm devices.
kdump/crash/makedumpfile enablement for qualcomm devices on v4.14 and v5.4
kernel upgrade for 7 chipsets for automotive. v4.9,v4.14,v5.4,v5.15,v6.6

Linux KernelKernel upgradeCoresightGunyahBringupEmbedded Systems

Ibm india private limited

Software Developer

Nov 2015 – Apr 2020 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Worked in up-streaming linux kernel patches power management subsystem and powerpc arch specific contributions.
https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-pm/list/?submitter=161191&state=*&archive=both
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/linuxppc-dev/list/?series=&submitter=68766&state=*&q=&archive=both&delegate=
Worked on Open power Abstraction layer (OPAL) firmware for Open power severs
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/skiboot/list/?&submitter=68766&state=*&q=&archive=both

Linux KernelBringupupstream

Samsung r&d institute india

Lead Engineer

Apr 2015 – Nov 2015 · 7 mos · Bangalore

Linux NVMe driver development and maintenance
SATA SSD performance analysis on Linux Distributions.
Linux IO stack performance optimization for NVMe PCIe SSDs.

Samsung r&d institute india

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bangalore

(Android) Linux kernel development (Memory Management and Filesystem)
Design and development of stackable compression filesystem optimised for performance.
Worked on touch screen driver and linux input subsystem.
Worked on Android input framework.

Bits

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2012 – Dec 2012 · 4 mos · Pilani

Conducted Lab sessions for the course Embedded System Design. The lab sessions included implementation and demonstration of various applications using Keil's MCBx51, 8051 Micro-controller board and Keil's MCB2300 ,ARMv7 LPC2378 Micro-controller board. The sessions were intended to demonstrate the use of various on-chip and on-board peripherals.