Balsundar P — Firmware Engineer
7+ years of profession experience in Embedded Systems and has been extensively involved in Linux Device Driver Development in semiconductor industry Experience in scsi low level drivers, interfacing high end throughput devices like Storage Controllers(SAS controllers/ RAID controllers) Submitted Linux Kernel Patches and also consistently involved in reviewing, acknowledging patches from Linux community https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/?qt=author&q=balsundar Deep understanding of cache coherency/memory handling, MMU/SMMU Contributed to zephyr open source: https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/60783 https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/zephyr/pull/60393 Experience with IO tools in Linux: Medusa, FIO Worked on building RPM packages for drivers and also worked on building Driver update disk Experience in Linux Device drivers and Linux internals Hands on experience of various communication/data transfer protocols like I2C, UART, SPI and USB Expertise in OS components such as MSIX interrupts and skillful in Configuring and compiling Linux Kernel Have conducted Basic Linux Driver Workshop at VIT University for Embedded System's students Proficient in C programming
Stackforce AI infers this person is a skilled Embedded Systems Engineer with a focus on Linux Device Drivers and Firmware Development.
Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Experience: 9 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Embedded Systems
- Linux Device Drivers
Career Highlights
- 7+ years in Embedded Systems and Linux Device Drivers.
- Contributed to Zephyr open source projects.
- Conducted workshops for Embedded Systems students.
Work Experience
Intel Corporation
Firmware Developer (4 yrs 7 mos)
Microsemi Corporation
Linux Device Driver Developer (4 yrs 1 mo)
Benison Technologies
Trainee Engineer (1 yr 2 mos)
Intugine Technologies
Embedded Developer (Intern) (2 mos)
CSIR- Central Scientific Instruments Organisation
Firmware Developer (Intern) (8 mos)
Education
Master's Degree at VIT UNIVERSITY
Bachelor's Degree at KIT's College of Engineering