I work at the lowest layers of the stack — from silicon bring-up to Wi-Fi drivers.

aditya@portfolio:~$ cat whoami.md

Linux kernel and embedded systems engineer with 5+ years across Amazon and Qualcomm. Currently an SDE II on Amazon's BSP team, bringing up first-party silicon that powers Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle. Previously spent 4+ years at Qualcomm building IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi drivers (ath11k / ath12k) with upstream Linux contributions. I like the layers most people never see — boot firmware, device drivers, and the first instructions a chip ever runs.

aditya@portfolio:~/experience$ git log --oneline

  1. Dec 2025 — Present

    Amazon · SDE II (Kernel Developer)

    • Core member of the BSP team for Amazon's first-party silicon powering Echo, Fire TV, and Kindle.
    • Own pin control, GPIO, and I2C subsystems — enabling board bring-up and peripheral integration.
    • Working across the ARM boot firmware stack — BootROM, Trusted Firmware-A (ATF), and SCP — and the boot sequence.
  2. Jun 2021 — Nov 2025

    Qualcomm · Linux Wireless Driver Developer

    Associate Engineer (2021) → Engineer (2022) → Senior Engineer (2023)
    • Linux wireless driver developer on ath11k / ath12k — Wi-Fi 7 (11be) and Wi-Fi 6 (11ax).
    • Enabled Multi-Link Operation (MLO) on upstream ath12k; added Wi-Fi 6E support to ath11k.
    • Contributed to userspace tooling — hostapd, wpa_supplicant, iw. Shipped with Google and Eero.
  3. May 2020 — Jul 2020

    Hewlett Packard Enterprise · Summer Intern

    • Project "Vega" — an AI-driven management system for primary storage.
    • Benchmarked Kafka, Redis, and Elasticsearch, building Go-lang client interfaces to measure performance.
  4. May 2019 — Jul 2019

    e-Yantra, IIT Bombay · Summer Intern

    • Designed and built a bio-inspired sub-carangiform fish robot — remote-controlled, with variable turn radius and speed.

aditya@portfolio:~/education$ ls -1

  1. 2023 — 2025

    IIT Madras · M.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

    • Specialization in Information Security · CGPA 8.81 / 10
  2. 2017 — 2021

    NIT Tiruchirappalli · B.Tech, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

    • CGPA 8.85 / 10

aditya@portfolio:~/skills$ ls -1

# languages

  • C
  • C++
  • Embedded C
  • Python
  • Shell
  • JavaScript

# kernel & embedded

  • Linux kernel
  • Device drivers
  • IEEE 802.11 (ath11k/ath12k)
  • pinctrl / GPIO / I2C
  • ARM Trusted Firmware
  • SCP firmware
  • Boot flow

# build & tooling

  • Git
  • Gerrit
  • OpenWrt
  • Buildroot
  • Yocto

# focus areas

  • SoC bring-up
  • Secure / boot firmware
  • Wi-Fi 7 / 6E
  • MLO
  • Upstreaming

aditya@portfolio:~/achievements$ cat awards.log

aditya@portfolio:~/work$ ls projects/ upstream/

Patch-upstreaming automation

Python · Shell

OpenWrt-inspired framework that builds custom Linux images from vanilla upstream repos, integrates private patches, and validates on embedded targets — cutting manual effort and accelerating upstreaming.

Kernel-patch validation bot

Python · Shell

Crawls internal mailing lists, auto-applies wireless kernel patches to the right trees, and runs checkpatch, cross-compilation, allmodconfig, and static analysis — posting results back to the patch thread.

aditya@portfolio:~/contact$ cat contact.txt

Bengaluru, India