Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in hardware validation.
Expertise in firmware development for Qualcomm Snapdragon processors.
Recognized for contributions to OpenPOWER firmware projects.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Semiconductor and Enterprise Computing expert with extensive experience in hardware and firmware validation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Computer ScienceEmbedded SoftwareHardware ValidationFirmware Validation

Other Skills

Test PlanningDriver DevelopmentFirmware DevelopmentValidationTest AutomationBug ReportingRISC-VDebuggersSoftware Systems EngineeringTest StrategyProblem SolvingCommunicationAnalytical SkillsCPython

About

Currently having 10+ years of industrial experience with 6 years in Qualcomm working as a Hardware Validation Engineer, 3+ years in IBM as POWER Firmware Validation Engineer and 1yr as a System Validation Engineer Intern in Intel Corporation. Excellent academic record in both Master's(From NIT Warangal) and bachelors degree(From JNTU Vizianagaram). - Experience in driver & Firmware development for Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile processor/chipsets. - Experience in Hardware Validation (pre & post silicon) of Snapdragon MSM’s. - Experience in working with POWER and x86 Processor architectures. - Experience in validation of POWER systems firmware. - Experience in firmware development, test development & automation of enterprise server systems. - Experience in post-silicon validation of Intel XEON server processor-based systems. - Good understanding of computer and server system architecture. - Working experience in Validation of Energy management and RAS functionalities. - Experience in triage and debugging. - Strong programming, analytical, problem solving and debugging skills. - Programming skills-- C, C++, Python and Shell Scripting

Experience

11 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 8 mos

Current Experience

Google

Senior Silicon Validation Engineer

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

CPUSS Validation(ARM64), Power Management.

Qualcomm

3 roles

Staff Engineer

Nov 2023 – Oct 2024 · 11 mos

Senior Lead Engineer

Dec 2020 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Computer ScienceTest Planning

Senior Engineer

Oct 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Currently working in Hardware validation of Snapdragon chipsets. It includes pre-silicon to post silicon functional validation activities. Mainly responsible for below power related activities
Core Power Reduction (CPR) driver development & functional validation.
Temperature Controller/Sensors driver development & functional validation.
Power firmware development – active mode control & low power modes handling.
Chip bring up activities – bring up, validation, debugging, mainline driver & FW changes.
Worked on below projects with owning driver & FW development for the above modules
Snapdragon X55 modem chip, 665 4G Mobile SOC, 765 5G Mobile SOC, SM6250 Mobile SOC.

Computer ScienceEmbedded Software

Ibm

System Firmware Engineer

Jul 2015 – Sep 2018 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Worked on functional verification of OPAL firmware for IBM POWER systems. OPAL(Open-Power Abstraction Layer) is a boot and runtime firmware for POWER Systems.
Responsible for E2E functional verification/validation of OpenPOWER Firmware(OPAL) across multiple POWER processor generations.
Firmware test-case development, automation & bug reporting.
Maintainer of OpenPOWER Test Framework project which has end to end firmware validation suite for all OpenPOWER systems firmware. Responsibilities for this project are maintain, develop and review & test others code.
Project: https://github.com/open-power/op-test-framework
OPAL Firmware development, debugging & bug fixing.
https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/commits?author=pridhiviraj
Good understanding in Power systems architecture and various boot time firmware components.
Good understanding in Processor, Memory and PCI (IO) Architectures.
Experience in working with below firmware components.
BMC(Baseboard Management Controller) for systems management.
IPMI V2.0 (Platform Management Interface)
OpenPOWER firmware - boot and runtime firmware for POWER (OPAL)
Secure and Trusted Boot.
Device tree bindings
Energy management and RAS Functionalities
Boot-loaders (Petitboot)
Generic & Platform Linux Kernel drivers.
Recognition in IBM:
Star of the month Rookie Award in January 2016.
“OPAL Functional testing & C{I, R}” Poster got selected in the Grand Finale of “ISDL Poster Carnival” on october 2016.
Open Source Significant Contributor award for 2016 IBM WW OSRP (Open Source Recognition Program) in the area of Linux.
Open Source Significant Contributor award for 2017 IBM WW OSRP (Open Source Recognition Program) in the area of OpenPOWER.
Eminence & Excellence Award in IBM ISDL on September 2017

Computer ScienceEmbedded SoftwareFirmware Validation

Intel corporation

Graduate Technical Intern

Jun 2014 – Jun 2015 · 1 yr · Greater Bengaluru Area

Organization: Server System Validation group(SSV), Intel Corporation, Bangalore, India.
Worked on Post-silicon Validation of Intel XEON Server Systems in the area of Processor Power Management and RAS Functionalities
Experience in working with x86 Processor architecture.
Experience in Post-silicon validation of Intel xeon server systems.
Good understanding of computer and server system architecture.
Working experience in Validation of Power management and RAS functionalities.
Cpuidle - Processor power states(cx states)
Cpufreq - Processor performance states(p states)
Thermal states
Experience in triage and debugging.