Dec 2024 – Present · 1 yr 6 mos

Dec 2022 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Played a pivotal role across the entire lifecycle of multiple chipsets, spanning from Pre-Silicon development to Customer Ship (CS), with a focus on Graphics software.
• Designed and delivered solutions for timewarp-related intricate feature requests on XR within tight timelines. Successfully handled multiple feature requests across other mobile platforms as well.
• Pioneered the combination of dispatcher on firmware and preemption, achieving a significant milestone as the first on XR chipset.
• Analyzed performance bottlenecks and identified opportunities for power optimization. Successfully implemented changes to enhance both the power efficiency and overall performance of Adreno GPUs.
• Tackled escalated Adreno GPU issues from customers and the test team.
• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to finalize design discussions and address complex customer issues.
• Demonstrated a keen eye for vulnerabilities in the Graphics kernel driver (KGSL), patching security issues including use-after-free and time-of-check/time-of-use (TOCTOU) flaws.
• Triaged issues to root causes, including hardware bugs, and collaborated with the hardware team to implement effective workarounds.
• Discovered and implemented multiple code enhancements through thorough study and actively participated in Gerrit code reviews.
• Designed and implemented scripts to enhance productivity across development workflows. These solutions streamlined processes, improved efficiency, and contributed to successful project outcomes.
• Provided training to new team members.

Dec 2019 – Dec 2022 · 3 yrs

• Collaborated on commercialization efforts for the Qualcomm GPU kernel driver (KGSL) across multiple chipsets. My responsibilities included delivering essential features, resolving stability, power, performance, and functional issues from customers and test team.
• Demonstrated a keen eye for vulnerabilities in the Graphics kernel driver (KGSL) by identifying and patching security issues, including memory leaks and integer overflows.
• Triaged issues to root causes, including hardware bugs, and collaborated with the hardware team to implement effective workarounds.
• Upstreamed a bug fix in the Linux tracing code, contributing to the broader open-source community.
• Designed and implemented a suite of productivity-enhancing tools and scripts, including several developed using Django. Notably, some of these tools are hosted on intranet.
• Enhanced the crash dump parsing tool to extract critical GPU driver, hardware information, facilitating faster debugging.
• Discovered and implemented multiple code enhancements through thorough code study.
• Actively participated in Gerrit code reviews, uncovering bugs and contributing to code quality.
• Documented valuable learnings in wikis for knowledge sharing.

Jul 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Broadly worked on sensors software:
• ● Implemented a new hardware abstraction layer (HAL) from scratch which communicates with multiple processors
• ● Developed a new algorithm sensor from scratch
• ● Bring up to post CS support for wearables
• ● Bug fixing concerned with sensors HAL and low-level sensor framework