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
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.
[ OK ] Breakthrough Award — Qualcomm, 2025 · product innovation & cost-saving
[ OK ] Emerging Star Award — Qualcomm, 2023 & 2024 · consistency, perseverance, results
[ OK ] Rockstar Rookie Award — Qualcomm, 2023 · top graduate hire
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.
Upstream footprint
Linux Wireless · hostap · iw
Public contributions across the kernel and userspace wireless stack.